.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston carries a selection of one-of-a-kind duties and also privileges. Those include being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Among those astronauts-- Chip Hague-- is now preparing to launch to the International Space Station together with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine spinning goal under NASA's Commercial Workers Course. This will certainly be actually the third launch as well as 2nd mission to the space station for Hague, who was decided on as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has actually devoted 203 days precede.Hague was actually birthed and also increased in Kansas yet has crisscrossed the country for university and profession. He made levels from the United States Sky Force Institute in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, as well as he went to the USA Air Force Exam Pilot University at Edwards Aviation Service Bottom in California. Hague's military profession has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and consisted of a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transferred from the Flying force to the United State Area Force in 2020 after acting as the Area Force's supervisor of exam and also assessment at the Government.Familiar with new areas, Hague strongly recollects producing his initial journey to Johnson when he was interviewing to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no idea what to count on, and also it was actually a little mind-boggling. I knew everybody was viewing me and evaluating me," he pointed out. "Fortunately, even though I wasn't decided on at that point, I received another opportunity a few years later. It is actually a fairly enchanting area.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st astronaut lesson. He was the initial rocketeer from that group to become appointed to a purpose, which released in October 2018 however was miscarried quickly after departure. His next spaceflight took place in 2019, when he joined three of his friends-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has actually created several memories at Johnson, but one that sticks out is his experience working onsite surrounded by the 2013 federal government shutdown. "I am actually active-duty armed forces so I still related to function," he detailed. "I always remember being onsite and the center being completely unfilled. Having the capacity to ride around a vacant university on the free-range bikes-- it was actually relaxed and also surreal." It was actually likewise an examine of what numerous Johnson workers experienced during the course of the widespread as well as how NASA maintains nonstop support for spaceflight functions regardless of extenuating situations.Hague currently looks ahead to another adventure to reduced The planet orbit. NASA and also SpaceX officials currently intend to launch the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff will certainly lift off coming from Release Complicated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Space Troop Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Dragon spacecraft.Hague and also Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Expedition 72 crew aboard the terminal. They will join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and also are going to devote concerning six months carrying out clinical study in microgravity and accomplishing a series of working activities before returning home.More details concerning the purpose and also team can be discovered through observing the Crew-9 blog post, @commercial_crew on X, or office workers on Facebook. You can easily additionally adhere to @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.