.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston holds a variety of distinct tasks and also advantages. Those include being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.One of those astronauts-- Scar Hague-- is right now readying to release to the International Space Station together with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational purpose under NASA's Business Workers Program. This will certainly be actually the 3rd launch and 2nd goal to the spaceport station for Hague, that was chosen as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has devoted 203 times in space.Hague was born as well as elevated in Kansas however has crisscrossed the nation for university as well as career. He gained degrees coming from the USA Sky Force School in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Modern Technology in Cambridge, and he went to the united state Air Force Exam Fly University at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Hague's armed forces career has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and also included a five-month release to Iraq. Hague moved from the Aviation service to the USA Area Force in 2020 after working as the Room Force's supervisor of test and analysis at the Government.Familiar with new locations, Hague clearly remembers creating his 1st vacation to Johnson when he was actually interviewing to join NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no concept what to expect, and also it was a little bit frustrating. I knew everybody was actually watching me and also judging me," he mentioned. "The good news is, even though I wasn't selected then, I received another odds a few years later on. It is actually a pretty magical location.".Hague finished his astronaut training in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st astronaut training class. He was the 1st astronaut from that group to become designated to an objective, which launched in October 2018 yet was aborted soon after launch. His following spaceflight happened in 2019, when he joined 3 of his classmates-- 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 brought in many minds at Johnson, however one that attracts attention is his experience functioning onsite amid the 2013 government closure. "I am actually active-duty armed forces so I still involved function," he described. "I remember being onsite as well as the facility being actually fully unfilled. Having the ability to use around an unfilled university on the free-range bikes-- it was actually calm and surreal." It was actually likewise a sneak peek of what many Johnson workers experienced during the pandemic and also just how NASA keeps round-the-clock support for spaceflight procedures no matter mitigating scenarios.Hague currently looks ahead to yet another adventure to low Earth track. NASA as well as SpaceX representatives presently intend to launch the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will certainly take off coming from Introduce Complicated 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Space Troop Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Monster spacecraft.Hague as well as Gorbonov will become members of the Trip 72 workers aboard the station. They are going to sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and will certainly spend concerning six months performing scientific research study in microgravity and accomplishing a range of functional tasks just before returning home.More particulars concerning the goal and also crew may be found through following the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or even commercial staff on Facebook. You can easily likewise observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.