.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston carries a selection of distinct duties and also privileges. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.One of those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is now preparing to introduce to the International Space Station in addition to Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth rotational purpose under NASA's Commercial Workers Plan. This are going to be actually the third launch and also 2nd mission to the spaceport station for Hague, that was actually chosen as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has spent 203 times precede.Hague was actually born as well as increased in Kansas however has crisscrossed the nation for college and job. He gained degrees coming from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Technology in Cambridge, and he participated in the U.S. Aviation service Test Fly University at Edwards Flying Force Foundation in The Golden State. Hague's army career has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and included a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Flying force to the USA Room Interject 2020 after working as the Space Force's director of examination as well as analysis at the Pentagon.Familiar with new places, Hague vividly recollects making his very first vacation to Johnson when he was actually questioning to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no tip what to anticipate, and it was a little mind-boggling. I understood every person was seeing me and determining me," he mentioned. "Luckily, although I had not been selected then, I acquired one more possibility a handful of years later on. It is actually a fairly enchanting spot.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st rocketeer course. He was the very first astronaut coming from that team to be designated to a mission, which launched in October 2018 but was actually miscarried not long after departure. His upcoming spaceflight developed in 2019, when he signed up with three of his friends-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has brought in several minds at Johnson, however one that sticks out is his experience functioning onsite in the middle of the 2013 government shutdown. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still related to work," he revealed. "I remember being actually onsite and also the center being entirely unfilled. Managing to use around an unfilled university on the free-range bikes-- it was actually relaxed as well as unique." It was actually likewise a sneak peek of what many Johnson workers experienced during the pandemic as well as how NASA sustains day-and-night help for spaceflight procedures despite extenuating instances.Hague right now looks ahead to another quest to low Earth orbit. NASA and SpaceX authorities presently organize to release the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff is going to take off coming from Introduce Complicated 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Area Force Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as well as Dragon space capsule.Hague as well as Gorbonov will become members of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will certainly join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, as well as will definitely spend concerning six months carrying out medical analysis in microgravity and also accomplishing a series of operational tasks before coming back home.Even more information about the objective and also team could be discovered by complying with the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or even commercial crew on Facebook. You may also observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.