.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston contains a selection of one-of-a-kind accountabilities and opportunities. Those feature being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Some of those astronauts-- Scar Hague-- is actually right now preparing to release to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth rotational mission under NASA's Commercial Team System. This are going to be actually the third launch and second goal to the space station for Hague, that was actually picked as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has actually spent 203 days in space.Hague was born and also elevated in Kansas but has actually crisscrossed the nation for college and profession. He got degrees coming from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Modern Technology in Cambridge, as well as he participated in the USA Air Force Examination Pilot University at Edwards Air Force Bottom in California. Hague's armed forces profession has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and consisted of a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transferred from the Aviation service to the USA Area Interject 2020 after working as the Area Power's supervisor of examination and also analysis at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand new places, Hague clearly recalls making his initial trip to Johnson when he was actually questioning to join NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no suggestion what to expect, as well as it was actually a little difficult. I recognized every person was seeing me and also evaluating me," he claimed. "The good news is, although I wasn't selected at that point, I received an additional opportunity a handful of years later. It's a pretty enchanting place.".Hague completed his rocketeer training in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st astronaut class. He was the initial astronaut from that team to become assigned to a goal, which launched in Oct 2018 yet was aborted shortly after takeoff. His upcoming spaceflight happened in 2019, when he signed up with three of his classmates-- 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 created several memories at Johnson, however one that attracts attention is his adventure functioning onsite amidst the 2013 government shutdown. "I'm active-duty military so I still came to work," he explained. "I bear in mind being actually onsite and the facility being fully vacant. Being able to use around an empty campus on the free-range bikes-- it was actually tranquil and also unique." It was additionally a preview of what lots of Johnson staff members experienced in the course of the global and also how NASA sustains round-the-clock assistance for spaceflight operations no matter mitigating situations.Hague right now expects another journey to low Earth orbit. NASA and SpaceX officials presently plan to launch the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team is going to ascend from Launch Sophisticated 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Area Force Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Monster space probe.Hague and Gorbonov will become members of the Trip 72 team aboard the station. They will definitely participate in NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and are going to spend about 6 months carrying out clinical investigation in microgravity and finishing a series of functional activities before returning home.Even more details concerning the purpose as well as crew may be discovered through following the Crew-9 weblog, @commercial_crew on X, or commercial staff on Facebook. You can easily additionally comply with @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.