.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston accommodates an assortment of special duties and also benefits. Those consist of being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is actually now preparing to launch to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning goal under NASA's Business Workers Program. This will certainly be the third launch as well as 2nd purpose to the spaceport station for Hague, that was actually chosen as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has actually devoted 203 times precede.Hague was born and increased in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the country for university as well as job. He got degrees from the USA Air Troop School in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and also he participated in the USA Aviation service Test Fly University at Edwards Aviation Service Bottom in California. Hague's army career has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and consisted of a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transferred from the Flying force to the United State Area Interject 2020 after working as the Room Pressure's director of examination and also analysis at the Government.Familiar with brand-new locations, Hague strongly remembers making his first vacation to Johnson when he was speaking with to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no suggestion what to anticipate, and also it was a little bit difficult. I knew everyone was actually viewing me and determining me," he mentioned. "The good news is, although I had not been decided on then, I acquired one more possibility a few years later on. It is actually a rather magical spot.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st astronaut course. He was the initial rocketeer from that team to be appointed to an objective, which introduced in Oct 2018 yet was actually miscarried quickly after departure. His next spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he participated in three of his classmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually made a lot of moments at Johnson, but one that attracts attention is his expertise working onsite among the 2013 government shutdown. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still related to operate," he detailed. "I don't forget being actually onsite as well as the facility being totally unfilled. Having the ability to use around a vacant school on the free-range bikes-- it was actually serene as well as surreal." It was actually also an examine of what many Johnson employees experienced during the course of the astronomical and how NASA maintains day-and-night help for spaceflight operations regardless of extenuating scenarios.Hague now expects another trip to reduced Planet orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX officials currently plan to launch the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will definitely take off coming from Release Sophisticated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Area Force Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Monster space capsule.Hague and Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the station. They will certainly participate in NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, as well as are going to invest regarding 6 months performing clinical study in microgravity and also completing a stable of functional tasks before returning home.More particulars regarding the purpose and team may be found through observing the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or even office team on Facebook. You may likewise adhere to @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.