.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston accommodates a variety of distinct obligations and advantages. Those include being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is right now preparing to launch to the International Space Station together with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine rotational objective under NASA's Office Staff Course. This are going to be the third launch as well as 2nd purpose to the spaceport station for Hague, who was picked as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has spent 203 days in space.Hague was birthed and elevated in Kansas but has actually crisscrossed the nation for college and career. He earned levels from the USA Sky Force School in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Innovation in Cambridge, and also he went to the united state Aviation service Exam Aviator College at Edwards Aviation Service Foundation in California. Hague's army career has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., as well as included a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague moved coming from the Flying force to the U.S. Area Force in 2020 after functioning as the Area Power's supervisor of examination as well as evaluation at the Government.No stranger to new locations, Hague vividly recollects producing his first travel to Johnson when he was interviewing to sign up with NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no idea what to count on, and it was actually a little overwhelming. I understood everybody was actually seeing me and also judging me," he mentioned. "Thankfully, even though I had not been picked then, I got one more possibility a couple of years eventually. It is actually a fairly wonderful place.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st astronaut training class. He was actually the first astronaut from that group to be delegated to an objective, which released in October 2018 yet was miscarried quickly after departure. His following spaceflight happened in 2019, when he signed up with 3 of his classmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has created many minds at Johnson, but one that stands apart is his experience working onsite amid the 2013 government cessation. "I'm active-duty army so I still concerned work," he clarified. "I always remember being actually onsite and the facility being actually completely unfilled. Having the ability to use around an empty school on the free-range bikes-- it was actually serene and unique." It was actually likewise a preview of what several Johnson employees experienced during the course of the astronomical and also how NASA maintains round-the-clock help for spaceflight operations no matter extenuating scenarios.Hague right now expects yet another journey to reduced Earth orbit. NASA and also SpaceX representatives currently intend to release the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will take off coming from Launch Sophisticated 40 from the Cape Canaveral Area Troop Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Dragon spacecraft.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Expedition 72 team aboard the station. They will certainly join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, as well as are going to spend regarding 6 months conducting clinical research study in microgravity and also accomplishing a series of working activities before coming back home.More details about the mission as well as staff may be discovered through adhering to the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or business crew on Facebook. You may likewise follow @astrohague on X and Instagram.