.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston accommodates a wide array of unique tasks as well as advantages. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.One of those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is actually currently readying to release to the International Spaceport Station together with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth rotational objective under NASA's Commercial Team Course. This will definitely be actually the 3rd launch as well as second objective to the spaceport station for Hague, who was decided on as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and also has actually devoted 203 times in space.Hague was actually born and increased in Kansas yet has crisscrossed the country for college and occupation. He got levels from the United States Sky Force School in Colorado and the Massachusetts Principle of Modern Technology in Cambridge, as well as he went to the united state Flying force Examination Fly Institution at Edwards Flying Force Foundation in The Golden State. Hague's military profession has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and also featured a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Air Force to the U.S. Space Force in 2020 after serving as the Space Pressure's supervisor of examination and also assessment at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand new areas, Hague vividly remembers producing his first excursion to Johnson when he was speaking with to join NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no concept what to expect, as well as it was a bit mind-boggling. I knew everybody was actually watching me as well as judging me," he pointed out. "Luckily, even though I had not been selected at that point, I obtained yet another chance a couple of years later. It's a pretty magical area.".Hague finished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st rocketeer course. He was actually the very first rocketeer coming from that group to become delegated to a purpose, which introduced in October 2018 however was actually miscarried shortly after launch. His following spaceflight happened in 2019, when he signed up with 3 of his friends-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has brought in several minds at Johnson, however one that stands apart is his expertise functioning onsite in the middle of the 2013 federal government cessation. "I'm active-duty military so I still came to operate," he described. "I keep in mind being actually onsite as well as the facility being fully unfilled. Having the capacity to ride around a vacant campus on the free-range bikes-- it was relaxed and also unique." It was actually likewise a sneak peek of what many Johnson staff members experienced during the course of the global and just how NASA sustains nonstop support for spaceflight operations irrespective of mitigating circumstances.Hague right now looks ahead to yet another trip to reduced The planet orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX representatives presently organize to introduce the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will take off from Launch Sophisticated 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Troop Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Monster spacecraft.Hague as well as Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Expedition 72 team aboard the terminal. They will sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and also are going to devote about six months administering clinical investigation in microgravity as well as accomplishing a stable of operational activities just before returning home.Even more particulars about the objective and crew can be located through following the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or even business crew on Facebook. You can also observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.