.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston carries a range of distinct duties and advantages. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is now preparing to introduce to the International Spaceport Station alongside Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth rotational mission under NASA's Industrial Team System. This are going to be actually the 3rd launch and also 2nd purpose to the space station for Hague, who was actually picked as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has devoted 203 times in space.Hague was actually birthed as well as increased in Kansas however has actually crisscrossed the nation for college as well as occupation. He earned levels from the USA Air Force Institute in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, and he joined the USA Aviation service Test Aviator School at Edwards Air Force Foundation in California. Hague's armed forces occupation has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and also included a five-month release to Iraq. Hague moved coming from the Aviation service to the U.S. Space Interject 2020 after acting as the Area Force's supervisor of test and examination at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand-new spots, Hague strongly recollects creating his very first vacation to Johnson when he was actually speaking with to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no tip what to expect, as well as it was a little bit mind-boggling. I understood every person was watching me and determining me," he mentioned. "Thankfully, despite the fact that I had not been chosen at that point, I received an additional odds a handful of years eventually. It is actually a rather enchanting area.".Hague completed his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st rocketeer course. He was actually the 1st astronaut from that group to be delegated to a mission, which launched in Oct 2018 but was miscarried not long after launch. His next spaceflight took place in 2019, when he joined three of his friends-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has made lots of minds at Johnson, yet one that attracts attention is his expertise functioning onsite amidst the 2013 authorities cessation. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still came to operate," he discussed. "I don't forget being onsite as well as the center being totally unfilled. Managing to use around a vacant university on the free-range bikes-- it was serene as well as surreal." It was additionally a preview of what a lot of Johnson staff members experienced throughout the global and also just how NASA maintains day-and-night help for spaceflight procedures no matter mitigating scenarios.Hague currently expects yet another journey to low The planet orbit. NASA and SpaceX representatives currently intend to release the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew will definitely ascend coming from Launch Complex 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Troop Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as well as Monster space probe.Hague and Gorbonov are going to enter of the Trip 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and will invest regarding six months carrying out scientific research study in microgravity and accomplishing a range of operational activities before coming back home.More details concerning the mission and workers can be found by adhering to the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or even commercial team on Facebook. You can also adhere to @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.