.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston carries a range of one-of-a-kind obligations and also advantages. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.One of those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is actually now readying to introduce to the International Space Station in addition to Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th spinning purpose under NASA's Commercial Team Course. This are going to be the 3rd launch as well as 2nd goal to the spaceport station for Hague, that was actually selected as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has devoted 203 times precede.Hague was actually birthed and increased in Kansas but has actually crisscrossed the nation for university and also career. He earned degrees from the USA Sky Troop Academy in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Technology in Cambridge, and he joined the united state Air Force Exam Pilot College at Edwards Aviation Service Foundation in The Golden State. Hague's army profession has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., as well as featured a five-month release to Iraq. Hague moved from the Aviation service to the U.S. Room Force in 2020 after working as the Space Pressure's supervisor of exam as well as analysis at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand new places, Hague vividly recollects making his initial journey to Johnson when he was actually speaking with to participate in NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no suggestion what to anticipate, as well as it was a little frustrating. I recognized everybody was viewing me as well as determining me," he stated. "Fortunately, despite the fact that I wasn't selected after that, I received one more possibility a couple of years later. It's a fairly wonderful location.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st astronaut training class. He was the initial astronaut coming from that group to become delegated to a goal, which launched in Oct 2018 but was aborted shortly after launch. His following spaceflight developed in 2019, when he joined 3 of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has made a lot of moments at Johnson, yet one that stands apart is his knowledge working onsite amid the 2013 authorities cessation. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still related to operate," he described. "I always remember being onsite and also the center being actually entirely vacant. Being able to use around an empty university on the free-range bikes-- it was actually quiet as well as surreal." It was actually likewise an examine of what lots of Johnson staff members experienced in the course of the astronomical as well as exactly how NASA sustains continuous help for spaceflight functions regardless of mitigating conditions.Hague right now looks ahead to another trip to reduced Earth track. NASA and also SpaceX officials currently intend to introduce the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff will definitely lift off from Launch Complex 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Space Troop Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Dragon space probe.Hague as well as Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Trip 72 crew aboard the terminal. They will certainly sign up with NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and will certainly devote about 6 months performing medical research study in microgravity and finishing a series of functional activities prior to returning home.Even more information concerning the mission and staff could be discovered by complying with the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or even commercial team on Facebook. You can also observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.