.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston holds a wide array of unique accountabilities and advantages. Those include being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those astronauts-- Scar Hague-- is right now readying to launch to the International Spaceport Station in addition to Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational objective under NASA's Commercial Workers Program. This will definitely be actually the 3rd launch as well as second objective to the space station for Hague, that was picked as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has actually devoted 203 times precede.Hague was born as well as raised in Kansas however has actually crisscrossed the nation for college and occupation. He made degrees coming from the USA Air Troop Institute in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and he went to the united state Air Force Exam Fly University at Edwards Air Force Foundation in California. Hague's armed forces occupation has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and also featured a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague moved from the Flying force to the United State Area Interject 2020 after serving as the Room Pressure's supervisor of exam and also assessment at the Pentagon.Familiar with brand-new places, Hague strongly remembers creating his 1st vacation to Johnson when he was actually questioning to sign up with NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no tip what to anticipate, and it was actually a little overwhelming. I recognized everyone was actually viewing me and determining me," he stated. "Luckily, even though I wasn't selected at that point, I received yet another opportunity a couple of years eventually. It's a rather enchanting location.".Hague completed his astronaut training in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st rocketeer lesson. He was actually the first astronaut coming from that group to become designated to a mission, which launched in Oct 2018 however was actually aborted shortly after takeoff. His following spaceflight happened in 2019, when he signed up with 3 of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has actually brought in several moments at Johnson, however one that sticks out is his expertise functioning onsite amidst the 2013 authorities shutdown. "I am actually active-duty army so I still came to operate," he clarified. "I remember being onsite and the center being totally empty. Having the ability to ride around a vacant school on the free-range bikes-- it was actually relaxed and surreal." It was actually likewise a sneak peek of what many Johnson staff members experienced during the course of the global as well as how NASA maintains continuous support for spaceflight operations irrespective of extenuating situations.Hague right now looks ahead to yet another experience to reduced Planet orbit. NASA and also SpaceX representatives currently plan to launch the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will certainly ascend coming from Launch Complex 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Troop Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Dragon spacecraft.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to become members of the Trip 72 workers aboard the station. They will sign up with NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and also will certainly invest concerning 6 months administering clinical analysis in microgravity and finishing a series of working activities just before returning home.Additional details regarding the objective and team could be found by complying with the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or office crew on Facebook. You can easily likewise adhere to @astrohague on X and also Instagram.