.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston contains a wide array of special tasks as well as benefits. Those consist of being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Among those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is actually now readying to release to the International Space Station in addition to Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational purpose under NASA's Business Team System. This are going to be actually the third launch and also 2nd purpose to the spaceport station for Hague, who was actually chosen as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and also has actually devoted 203 days in space.Hague was birthed and elevated in Kansas however has crisscrossed the country for university as well as job. He made levels coming from the United States Sky Force Institute in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and also he attended the USA Flying force Test Aviator College at Edwards Aviation Service Bottom in The Golden State. Hague's armed forces occupation has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and consisted of a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Air Force to the United State Area Interject 2020 after working as the Space Pressure's supervisor of examination and assessment at the Government.No stranger to new spots, Hague strongly remembers producing his initial travel to Johnson when he was speaking with to join NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no idea what to anticipate, and it was a little bit mind-boggling. I recognized everyone was actually watching me as well as judging me," he pointed out. "The good news is, even though I wasn't chosen at that point, I got one more possibility a couple of years later on. It's a fairly magical location.".Hague completed his astronaut training in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st astronaut lesson. He was the very first astronaut from that group to be assigned to a mission, which launched in October 2018 yet was miscarried soon after departure. His next spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he participated in 3 of his friends-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has created many memories at Johnson, but one that sticks out is his knowledge functioning onsite amid the 2013 government closure. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still involved operate," he explained. "I don't forget being actually onsite and also the facility being fully empty. Managing to ride around an unfilled campus on the free-range bikes-- it was serene and unique." It was actually additionally a preview of what lots of Johnson workers experienced during the astronomical as well as exactly how NASA keeps nonstop help for spaceflight operations no matter extenuating scenarios.Hague now looks ahead to another adventure to reduced Planet orbit. NASA and SpaceX authorities currently prepare to introduce the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew will ascend coming from Launch Intricate 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Force Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Dragon spacecraft.Hague as well as Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Trip 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will certainly participate in NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and also will invest about 6 months administering scientific analysis in microgravity and finishing a series of working activities before returning home.More particulars regarding the mission as well as staff could be found by following the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or industrial staff on Facebook. You can likewise comply with @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.