.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston accommodates a range of distinct accountabilities and also opportunities. Those include being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.One of those rocketeers-- Chip Hague-- is right now readying to release to the International Spaceport Station alongside Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine spinning objective under NASA's Commercial Team Program. This are going to be the third launch as well as 2nd objective to the space station for Hague, that was chosen as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and also has spent 203 days precede.Hague was born as well as elevated in Kansas however has crisscrossed the country for college and job. He got degrees from the United States Sky Troop Institute in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Technology in Cambridge, and also he joined the united state Flying force Test Captain University at Edwards Flying Force Foundation in The Golden State. Hague's military occupation has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and included a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transferred from the Flying force to the United State Area Force in 2020 after functioning as the Space Force's director of examination as well as analysis at the Government.No stranger to new areas, Hague strongly recalls making his initial excursion to Johnson when he was questioning to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no idea what to expect, as well as it was actually a little overwhelming. I knew everybody was actually seeing me and determining me," he claimed. "Thankfully, even though I had not been selected then, I acquired one more possibility a handful of years later. It's a rather enchanting area.".Hague finished his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st rocketeer training class. He was the 1st rocketeer from that group to be assigned to an objective, which launched in October 2018 yet was miscarried shortly after takeoff. His next spaceflight took place in 2019, when he participated in 3 of his friends-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually made a lot of memories at Johnson, however one that stands out is his adventure working onsite amidst the 2013 authorities cessation. "I am actually active-duty military so I still came to function," he clarified. "I remember being actually onsite and the center being actually completely vacant. Having the ability to ride around an unfilled campus on the free-range bikes-- it was relaxed as well as unique." It was likewise an examine of what numerous Johnson staff members experienced during the global as well as exactly how NASA sustains day-and-night assistance for spaceflight functions regardless of extenuating instances.Hague now looks ahead to an additional quest to reduced Planet orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX authorities currently prepare to release the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff will certainly take off coming from Release Complicated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Area Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Dragon spacecraft.Hague and Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the terminal. They are going to sign up with NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, as well as will definitely invest regarding six months performing scientific study in microgravity and also accomplishing a variety of functional tasks prior to coming back home.More particulars regarding the purpose and also crew may be discovered through complying with the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or even commercial staff on Facebook. You can easily likewise comply with @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.