.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston holds a selection of distinct tasks and opportunities. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is currently prepping to release to the International Spaceport Station alongside Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th spinning purpose under NASA's Office Crew Plan. This will certainly be the 3rd launch and second objective to the spaceport station for Hague, that was selected as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has actually invested 203 times precede.Hague was birthed as well as elevated in Kansas yet has crisscrossed the country for college as well as occupation. He made degrees coming from the USA Sky Force Institute in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Modern Technology in Cambridge, and he attended the united state Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Foundation in California. Hague's army career has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and included a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Aviation service to the USA Room Force in 2020 after functioning as the Area Force's supervisor of exam and also assessment at the Pentagon.Familiar with brand new areas, Hague vividly recollects producing his first journey to Johnson when he was questioning to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no concept what to count on, as well as it was actually a little bit frustrating. I recognized everybody was watching me and also determining me," he mentioned. "Thankfully, even though I had not been selected at that point, I got yet another possibility a couple of years eventually. It is actually a quite magical place.".Hague finished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st rocketeer class. He was actually the initial astronaut from that team to be designated to a mission, which introduced in October 2018 however was actually miscarried not long after departure. His following spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he participated in 3 of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually brought in a lot of memories at Johnson, yet one that attracts attention is his knowledge working onsite surrounded by the 2013 federal government closure. "I am actually active-duty army so I still came to operate," he described. "I bear in mind being onsite and also the facility being entirely empty. Being able to use around an unfilled campus on the free-range bikes-- it was quiet and also unique." It was actually additionally a preview of what numerous Johnson staff members experienced during the course of the astronomical and exactly how NASA preserves round-the-clock support for spaceflight operations irrespective of extenuating conditions.Hague right now expects yet another experience to reduced Planet orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX representatives currently intend to launch the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will lift off coming from Introduce Complicated 40 from the Cape Canaveral Area Troop Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space probe.Hague and Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Exploration 72 workers aboard the station. They will participate in NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and will spend regarding 6 months performing medical analysis in microgravity and finishing a variety of functional activities just before coming back home.More details about the mission and also team could be discovered by complying with the Crew-9 blog post, @commercial_crew on X, or business workers on Facebook. You can likewise observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.