.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston holds a selection of one-of-a-kind obligations as well as benefits. Those include being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.One of those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is actually currently prepping to release to the International Spaceport Station along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational purpose under NASA's Business Crew System. This are going to be the 3rd launch and 2nd mission to the spaceport station for Hague, who was chosen as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has actually invested 203 times in space.Hague was birthed and also raised in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the nation for college and job. He earned degrees coming from the USA Sky Troop School in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Modern Technology in Cambridge, and he attended the USA Aviation service Test Aviator Institution at Edwards Aviation Service Base in California. Hague's armed forces career has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and featured a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Air Force to the U.S. Area Interject 2020 after functioning as the Area Force's director of exam and assessment at the Government.No stranger to brand new locations, Hague strongly recollects creating his initial vacation to Johnson when he was actually questioning to sign up with NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no tip what to count on, as well as it was a little mind-boggling. I understood everybody was actually watching me as well as judging me," he pointed out. "Fortunately, despite the fact that I had not been selected then, I acquired one more possibility a few years eventually. It is actually a rather enchanting spot.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st astronaut course. He was actually the very first rocketeer from that team to become delegated to an objective, which released in October 2018 however was actually aborted quickly after takeoff. His following spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he participated in three of his friends-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has actually created lots of minds at Johnson, yet one that sticks out is his expertise operating onsite amid the 2013 federal government cessation. "I am actually active-duty military so I still related to operate," he revealed. "I keep in mind being actually onsite and the facility being actually fully empty. Having the capacity to ride around an unfilled school on the free-range bikes-- it was peaceful and unique." It was actually likewise a sneak peek of what numerous Johnson employees experienced during the astronomical as well as how NASA preserves day-and-night support for spaceflight procedures no matter extenuating circumstances.Hague right now looks ahead to another trip to low Earth orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX representatives currently prepare to launch the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers is going to take off coming from Introduce Intricate 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Area Force Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Dragon spacecraft.Hague and Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Expedition 72 staff aboard the station. They will certainly participate in NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and are going to invest regarding 6 months administering scientific study in microgravity as well as accomplishing a series of operational tasks before coming back home.More particulars concerning the mission and also workers can be discovered through observing the Crew-9 blog post, @commercial_crew on X, or industrial staff on Facebook. You may likewise follow @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.