.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston contains a range of distinct responsibilities as well as privileges. Those consist of being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Some of those astronauts-- Chip Hague-- is actually now prepping to introduce to the International Space Station in addition to Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth rotational objective under NASA's Industrial Crew Plan. This are going to be actually the third launch as well as 2nd goal to the space station for Hague, that was decided on as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has actually devoted 203 days in space.Hague was born and increased in Kansas yet has crisscrossed the country for college and also career. He gained degrees from the USA Air Troop Academy in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, and also he participated in the U.S. Aviation service Exam Aviator Institution at Edwards Aviation Service Bottom in California. Hague's army profession has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., as well as featured a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Air Force to the U.S. Room Force in 2020 after functioning as the Room Power's director of exam as well as examination at the Government.Familiar with brand-new locations, Hague vividly remembers producing his 1st travel to Johnson when he was actually questioning to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no tip what to count on, as well as it was actually a bit overwhelming. I understood everybody was enjoying me and also evaluating me," he said. "Thankfully, despite the fact that I had not been chosen then, I obtained yet another chance a handful of years later on. It is actually a fairly enchanting area.".Hague accomplished his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st rocketeer course. He was the first rocketeer from that group to become delegated to a purpose, which released in October 2018 however was aborted shortly after departure. His upcoming spaceflight took place in 2019, when he joined three of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually created many memories at Johnson, however one that attracts attention is his adventure working onsite surrounded by the 2013 government closure. "I'm active-duty army so I still concerned work," he described. "I remember being actually onsite and also the center being actually completely empty. Managing to use around an unfilled university on the free-range bikes-- it was serene and surreal." It was actually also a sneak peek of what many Johnson employees experienced during the widespread and just how NASA maintains round-the-clock support for spaceflight operations regardless of extenuating conditions.Hague right now expects yet another experience to reduced Earth track. NASA and also SpaceX authorities currently plan to launch the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew will take off from Release Complicated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Room Troop Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Dragon space capsule.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to become members of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the station. They will certainly join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and are going to devote concerning 6 months carrying out clinical research in microgravity as well as completing a series of operational activities just before coming back home.Additional details regarding the purpose as well as team could be located through observing the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or industrial crew on Facebook. You can additionally adhere to @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.