.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston holds a range of one-of-a-kind responsibilities and advantages. Those feature being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those astronauts-- Scar Hague-- is actually now readying to introduce to the International Space Station together with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine spinning goal under NASA's Industrial Staff Course. This will be actually the 3rd launch and also second goal to the space station for Hague, that was actually chosen as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has invested 203 days in space.Hague was actually birthed and increased in Kansas but has crisscrossed the country for university as well as job. He got degrees from the United States Air Troop Academy in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Technology in Cambridge, as well as he attended the united state Air Force Exam Fly School at Edwards Flying Force Bottom in California. Hague's army job has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., as well as consisted of a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transmitted coming from the Flying force to the U.S. Room Force in 2020 after acting as the Area Power's director of test and also analysis at the Government.No stranger to new spots, Hague vividly remembers producing his 1st excursion to Johnson when he was actually questioning to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no suggestion what to count on, as well as it was actually a little bit frustrating. I understood every person was seeing me as well as evaluating me," he mentioned. "Fortunately, although I had not been decided on after that, I acquired yet another odds a couple of years later. It's a pretty enchanting location.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st rocketeer class. He was actually the first astronaut from that group to become assigned to a purpose, which released in Oct 2018 but was actually miscarried soon after takeoff. His next spaceflight developed in 2019, when he signed up with three of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has made numerous moments at Johnson, however one that sticks out is his experience working onsite surrounded by the 2013 government cessation. "I am actually active-duty army so I still concerned work," he detailed. "I always remember being actually onsite and also the facility being actually fully empty. Being able to use around an empty grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was peaceful and also surreal." It was additionally an examine of what lots of Johnson staff members experienced during the course of the widespread and also just how NASA sustains day-and-night help for spaceflight operations despite extenuating situations.Hague now looks ahead to another trip to low Earth track. NASA and SpaceX officials presently plan to introduce the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff is going to ascend coming from Introduce Complex 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Area Force Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Dragon spacecraft.Hague as well as Gorbonov are going to become members of the Exploration 72 team aboard the station. They will definitely participate in NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and will definitely invest regarding six months administering medical research study in microgravity and also finishing a stable of operational activities prior to coming back home.More information concerning the mission and staff can be located by adhering to the Crew-9 weblog, @commercial_crew on X, or even office workers on Facebook. You can likewise follow @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.