.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston contains an assortment of one-of-a-kind tasks as well as opportunities. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Among those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is now prepping to introduce to the International Space Station alongside Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning purpose under NASA's Industrial Team System. This will be the third launch as well as 2nd objective to the space station for Hague, who was actually selected as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and also has invested 203 times precede.Hague was actually born and also elevated in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the country for college and also job. He gained degrees coming from the USA Sky Force Academy in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and he joined the united state Air Force Examination Captain School at Edwards Flying Force Foundation in The Golden State. Hague's army profession has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and also included a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transferred from the Air Force to the United State Space Force in 2020 after acting as the Area Pressure's director of exam and assessment at the Pentagon.No stranger to new locations, Hague clearly remembers creating his initial trip to Johnson when he was actually speaking with to sign up with NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no suggestion what to expect, and it was a little bit frustrating. I recognized every person was actually seeing me as well as determining me," he stated. "Fortunately, even though I had not been chosen then, I got an additional chance a couple of years eventually. It's a pretty magical location.".Hague completed his rocketeer training in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st rocketeer course. He was actually the 1st astronaut from that team to become appointed to an objective, which released in October 2018 yet was actually aborted shortly after departure. His next spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he joined three of his classmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually brought in many minds at Johnson, however one that attracts attention is his expertise working onsite in the middle of the 2013 government shutdown. "I'm active-duty army so I still concerned function," he revealed. "I keep in mind being onsite and also the center being actually completely vacant. Having the capacity to ride around an unfilled campus on the free-range bikes-- it was peaceful and unique." It was actually likewise a preview of what many Johnson workers experienced throughout the global and also just how NASA preserves continuous help for spaceflight operations no matter extenuating instances.Hague right now looks ahead to yet another adventure to low Planet track. NASA and also SpaceX authorities currently plan to launch the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team is going to ascend from Launch Complex 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Troop Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Dragon space probe.Hague and also Gorbonov will enter of the Trip 72 staff aboard the station. They will definitely join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and will certainly devote about six months conducting scientific study in microgravity as well as finishing a range of operational activities prior to returning home.More details regarding the objective and staff could be discovered through following the Crew-9 weblog, @commercial_crew on X, or even commercial team on Facebook. You may likewise follow @astrohague on X and Instagram.