.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston contains an assortment of distinct tasks as well as privileges. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Among those astronauts-- Scar Hague-- is right now prepping to introduce to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational goal under NASA's Business Staff System. This are going to be the third launch and also 2nd goal to the space station for Hague, that was picked as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has devoted 203 times precede.Hague was birthed and also elevated in Kansas yet has crisscrossed the nation for university as well as job. He made levels from the United States Air Troop School in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, and he went to the USA Flying force Examination Fly University at Edwards Aviation Service Base in The Golden State. Hague's military job has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and also included a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague moved from the Air Force to the U.S. Space Interject 2020 after working as the Room Force's director of exam as well as evaluation at the Government.No stranger to brand-new places, Hague vividly remembers making his first trip to Johnson when he was interviewing to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no suggestion what to anticipate, as well as it was a bit frustrating. I recognized every person was enjoying me and evaluating me," he said. "The good news is, even though I wasn't picked at that point, I got an additional opportunity a handful of years later. It is actually a pretty magical place.".Hague completed his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st astronaut training class. He was actually the 1st astronaut from that team to be delegated to a purpose, which released in Oct 2018 however was actually miscarried not long after departure. His following spaceflight happened in 2019, when he signed up with three of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has brought in a lot of memories at Johnson, yet one that stands apart is his expertise operating onsite surrounded by the 2013 federal government cessation. "I am actually active-duty armed forces so I still pertained to function," he described. "I remember being onsite as well as the facility being entirely empty. Having the capacity to use around an empty school on the free-range bikes-- it was actually peaceful and surreal." It was actually additionally a preview of what several Johnson workers experienced during the widespread and also how NASA maintains day-and-night assistance for spaceflight functions no matter mitigating conditions.Hague right now expects an additional journey to reduced Earth orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX authorities currently organize to launch the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff will take off from Release Sophisticated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Area Troop Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Monster space capsule.Hague and Gorbonov will enter of the Trip 72 team aboard the station. They will join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and will spend about six months conducting medical analysis in microgravity and also accomplishing a series of operational tasks just before coming back home.Even more information about the goal as well as workers can be located by following the Crew-9 blog post, @commercial_crew on X, or business workers on Facebook. You can also follow @astrohague on X and also Instagram.