.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston holds a selection of unique accountabilities and also opportunities. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is actually now prepping to introduce to the International Spaceport Station alongside Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine rotational mission under NASA's Business Team System. This will definitely be the 3rd launch as well as second mission to the space station for Hague, that was selected as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has actually devoted 203 days precede.Hague was birthed as well as raised in Kansas however has actually crisscrossed the country for college and also profession. He earned levels coming from the United States Sky Troop School in Colorado and the Massachusetts Principle of Technology in Cambridge, as well as he joined the U.S. Flying force Test Fly Institution at Edwards Aviation Service Bottom in The Golden State. Hague's army occupation has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and included a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Aviation service to the USA Room Force in 2020 after working as the Room Force's director of exam and examination at the Government.No stranger to brand new spots, Hague strongly recollects making his 1st travel to Johnson when he was actually questioning to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no concept what to expect, and also it was actually a little frustrating. I understood everyone was enjoying me and evaluating me," he claimed. "Fortunately, although I had not been selected after that, I obtained yet another opportunity a handful of years eventually. It's a rather enchanting area.".Hague finished his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st astronaut course. He was actually the first astronaut from that group to become appointed to a purpose, which launched in October 2018 yet was miscarried shortly after launch. His next spaceflight happened in 2019, when he signed up with three of his schoolmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has created several moments at Johnson, yet one that attracts attention is his experience functioning onsite among the 2013 authorities shutdown. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still pertained to function," he described. "I bear in mind being actually onsite and the facility being actually entirely vacant. Having the ability to use around an unfilled school on the free-range bikes-- it was actually tranquil as well as surreal." It was likewise a preview of what several Johnson employees experienced during the course of the astronomical and also how NASA sustains nonstop assistance for spaceflight functions no matter extenuating scenarios.Hague right now expects an additional adventure to reduced Earth orbit. NASA and SpaceX officials currently plan to launch the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew is going to lift off from Launch Sophisticated 40 from the Cape Canaveral Area Troop Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Dragon space capsule.Hague and Gorbonov will become members of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the station. They are going to join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and will invest regarding 6 months performing clinical research study in microgravity and completing a variety of working tasks just before coming back home.More details concerning the purpose as well as crew may be discovered by adhering to the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or office staff on Facebook. You can easily additionally observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.