.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston carries a variety of special accountabilities and also advantages. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.One of those astronauts-- Scar Hague-- is actually now prepping to introduce to the International Spaceport Station in addition to Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational goal under NASA's Office Staff Plan. This are going to be actually the 3rd launch as well as 2nd objective to the spaceport station for Hague, who was actually selected as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and also has devoted 203 days precede.Hague was actually birthed and raised in Kansas yet has crisscrossed the nation for college and also occupation. He earned levels from the United States Sky Troop Institute in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Modern Technology in Cambridge, as well as he joined the U.S. Flying force Examination Captain College at Edwards Flying Force Foundation in California. Hague's army occupation 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 transferred coming from the Flying force to the USA Area Force in 2020 after working as the Room Power's supervisor of examination and examination at the Government.No stranger to brand new locations, Hague strongly remembers making his first excursion to Johnson when he was actually interviewing to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no concept what to expect, and also it was a little bit mind-boggling. I knew everybody was watching me as well as determining me," he claimed. "Fortunately, although I wasn't decided on at that point, I got one more chance a few years later on. It is actually a rather enchanting place.".Hague accomplished his astronaut training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st rocketeer training class. He was the 1st astronaut coming from that group to become delegated to a mission, which launched in Oct 2018 however was miscarried quickly after launch. His following spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he signed up with three of his classmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has actually created numerous moments at Johnson, yet one that attracts attention is his experience operating onsite amidst the 2013 federal government cessation. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still pertained to operate," he clarified. "I always remember being actually onsite as well as the center being completely vacant. Having the capacity to ride around an empty grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was calm as well as unique." It was likewise an examine of what lots of Johnson employees experienced throughout the pandemic and also how NASA preserves day-and-night help for spaceflight functions no matter mitigating conditions.Hague now looks ahead to another experience to low Planet track. NASA and SpaceX authorities presently prepare to release the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will definitely ascend coming from Introduce Complicated 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Monster space capsule.Hague and also Gorbonov will enter of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the station. They will definitely join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and also are going to devote about six months conducting clinical research in microgravity and completing a range of operational tasks before coming back home.Additional details regarding the mission and also crew can be discovered by following the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or business team on Facebook. You may also adhere to @astrohague on X and Instagram.