.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston accommodates a selection of unique responsibilities as well as opportunities. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.One of those astronauts-- Scar Hague-- is right now readying to launch to the International Space Station alongside Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth rotational goal under NASA's Office Team System. This will certainly be actually the 3rd launch and 2nd purpose to the spaceport station for Hague, that was actually selected as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has actually spent 203 times in space.Hague was birthed as well as increased in Kansas but has crisscrossed the nation for university and profession. He gained degrees from the United States Sky Force School in Colorado and the Massachusetts Principle of Modern Technology in Cambridge, and also he participated in the U.S. Aviation service Test Fly School at Edwards Flying Force Base in California. Hague's military profession has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., as well as consisted of a five-month release to Iraq. Hague moved from the Flying force to the USA Area Interject 2020 after serving as the Room Pressure's director of examination and analysis at the Government.No stranger to brand new areas, Hague vividly remembers creating his very first trip to Johnson when he was questioning to participate in NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no tip what to count on, as well as it was a little bit mind-boggling. I understood every person was actually watching me and also judging me," he stated. "Thankfully, despite the fact that I had not been decided on after that, I got yet another opportunity a couple of years later. It is actually a quite wonderful area.".Hague completed his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st rocketeer lesson. He was the first rocketeer coming from that group to become delegated to a mission, which introduced in October 2018 however was actually miscarried not long after departure. His next spaceflight happened in 2019, when he joined 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 actually brought in lots of memories at Johnson, yet one that stands apart is his knowledge functioning onsite among the 2013 federal government cessation. "I'm active-duty army so I still involved function," he explained. "I always remember being onsite and also the facility being entirely vacant. Having the ability to use around a vacant university on the free-range bikes-- it was calm and unique." It was additionally an examine of what lots of Johnson workers experienced during the global and just how NASA preserves nonstop assistance for spaceflight functions no matter extenuating situations.Hague now expects yet another journey to reduced Planet track. NASA and also SpaceX representatives currently organize to launch the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will certainly take off from Introduce Complex 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Troop Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Dragon spacecraft.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Expedition 72 crew aboard the station. They will certainly sign up with NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, as well as will spend regarding 6 months conducting medical research in microgravity and also completing a range of working activities before coming back home.More particulars regarding the goal and team may be discovered by adhering to the Crew-9 blog post, @commercial_crew on X, or business staff on Facebook. You can easily also comply with @astrohague on X and also Instagram.