.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston holds a range of special obligations and also opportunities. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Some of those astronauts-- Scar Hague-- is currently prepping to introduce to the International Space Station in addition to Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th spinning objective under NASA's Office Staff Plan. This will certainly be the third launch and also 2nd goal to the spaceport station for Hague, that was decided on as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and also has invested 203 days in space.Hague was actually birthed and increased in Kansas but has actually crisscrossed the nation for university and also occupation. He made levels coming from the United States Air Force School in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Modern Technology in Cambridge, and he participated in the U.S. Air Force Examination Pilot College at Edwards Flying Force Base in The Golden State. Hague's army job has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., as well as consisted of a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Air Force to the United State Area Force in 2020 after acting as the Room Pressure's supervisor of examination and assessment at the Government.Familiar with new spots, Hague strongly recollects making his initial excursion to Johnson when he was actually questioning to join NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no suggestion what to anticipate, and it was actually a little bit difficult. I knew everybody was actually enjoying me and determining me," he pointed out. "Luckily, despite the fact that I had not been chosen then, I received one more possibility a couple of years later on. It's a rather magical location.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st rocketeer training class. He was actually the 1st astronaut from that group to be assigned to a purpose, which launched in Oct 2018 but was miscarried quickly after launch. His following spaceflight developed in 2019, when he joined 3 of his friends-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has actually brought in many memories at Johnson, but one that stands apart is his experience working onsite amid the 2013 federal government cessation. "I'm active-duty military so I still came to function," he discussed. "I bear in mind being onsite and also the center being actually totally vacant. Having the ability to ride around an unfilled grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was actually peaceful and also surreal." It was additionally a sneak peek of what lots of Johnson employees experienced during the astronomical as well as exactly how NASA keeps continuous support for spaceflight operations no matter extenuating instances.Hague currently looks ahead to another journey to reduced Planet orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX representatives currently prepare to launch the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will ascend from Launch Complicated 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Area Force Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Monster space probe.Hague and Gorbonov will enter of the Expedition 72 staff aboard the station. They are going to participate in NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, as well as are going to invest about six months administering scientific study in microgravity and also accomplishing a stable of functional activities just before returning home.More information about the mission and crew could be discovered through observing the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or even office workers on Facebook. You can easily additionally observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.