.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston contains a range of one-of-a-kind accountabilities and privileges. Those feature being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Some of those astronauts-- Chip Hague-- is currently readying to release to the International Space Station alongside Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth rotational purpose under NASA's Industrial Workers Program. This will certainly be the third launch and also 2nd mission to the space station for Hague, who was actually decided on as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has invested 203 days precede.Hague was birthed and also raised in Kansas however has actually crisscrossed the country for college and also occupation. He gained levels from the United States Sky Troop School in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Innovation in Cambridge, and he joined the USA Flying force Exam Fly School at Edwards Flying Force Base in The Golden State. Hague's armed forces profession has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., as well as consisted of a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague moved from the Flying force to the United State Room Interject 2020 after serving as the Space Pressure's director of examination and also assessment at the Pentagon.Familiar with brand-new places, Hague strongly recalls producing his very first journey to Johnson when he was actually interviewing to sign up with NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no tip what to expect, and also it was actually a little bit mind-boggling. I knew every person was actually enjoying me and also judging me," he pointed out. "Thankfully, despite the fact that I wasn't picked after that, I acquired an additional odds a couple of years later on. It is actually a pretty magical area.".Hague finished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st rocketeer class. He was the 1st rocketeer from that team to become appointed to a purpose, which launched in Oct 2018 however was miscarried shortly after departure. His next spaceflight developed in 2019, when he participated in 3 of his schoolmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has actually made many minds at Johnson, however one that attracts attention is his experience working onsite among the 2013 authorities shutdown. "I'm active-duty army so I still involved operate," he described. "I don't forget being actually onsite as well as the center being actually entirely vacant. Having the capacity to ride around an empty university on the free-range bikes-- it was tranquil and also surreal." It was likewise a preview of what many Johnson employees experienced throughout the widespread and also how NASA maintains round-the-clock support for spaceflight procedures no matter extenuating situations.Hague right now expects yet another quest to reduced Earth orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX representatives presently consider to launch the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will definitely ascend coming from Introduce Sophisticated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Space Troop Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft.Hague and Gorbonov are going to enter of the Trip 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will certainly join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and also will spend concerning six months administering clinical research in microgravity as well as accomplishing a series of functional tasks prior to coming back home.Additional details about the purpose and crew could be discovered through following the Crew-9 weblog, @commercial_crew on X, or office team on Facebook. You can additionally observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.