.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston carries an assortment of unique tasks and also advantages. Those include being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.One of those astronauts-- Chip Hague-- is now readying to release to the International Spaceport Station along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational mission under NASA's Business Staff Program. This will definitely be actually the third launch as well as 2nd goal to the spaceport station for Hague, who was actually chosen as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and also has spent 203 times precede.Hague was actually birthed and increased in Kansas however has actually crisscrossed the country for university and job. He got levels coming from the United States Air Troop Academy in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Modern Technology in Cambridge, as well as he joined the U.S. Air Force Test Fly Institution at Edwards Flying Force Base in The Golden State. Hague's military job has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and featured a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Flying force to the United State Space Force in 2020 after functioning as the Area Pressure's supervisor of exam and also assessment at the Pentagon.Familiar with brand new locations, Hague strongly remembers making his initial vacation to Johnson when he was interviewing to join NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no concept what to count on, and also it was actually a little overwhelming. I knew everyone was actually watching me and judging me," he claimed. "Thankfully, although I wasn't chosen then, I obtained an additional odds a couple of years eventually. It is actually a quite wonderful location.".Hague completed his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st rocketeer lesson. He was actually the initial rocketeer from that team to become designated to a goal, which launched in October 2018 but was miscarried not long after launch. His next spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he signed up with three of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has actually made many moments at Johnson, yet one that stands out is his adventure operating onsite surrounded by the 2013 government closure. "I am actually active-duty armed forces so I still related to function," he described. "I don't forget being actually onsite as well as the facility being entirely vacant. Having the ability to use around an unfilled campus on the free-range bikes-- it was serene and surreal." It was actually likewise an examine of what numerous Johnson employees experienced during the astronomical as well as just how NASA maintains round-the-clock help for spaceflight operations regardless of mitigating circumstances.Hague now looks ahead to yet another adventure to low Earth track. NASA and also SpaceX representatives currently intend to introduce the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff will certainly ascend coming from Introduce Intricate 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Space Force Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft as well as Dragon space probe.Hague as well as Gorbonov are going to become members of the Trip 72 team aboard the terminal. They will certainly sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and are going to invest about six months administering clinical investigation in microgravity and also finishing a range of functional activities prior to returning home.Additional particulars about the objective and workers may be located by following the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or business team on Facebook. You can likewise follow @astrohague on X and also Instagram.