.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston contains a range of special responsibilities and also advantages. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is actually right now readying to release to the International Spaceport Station along with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning objective under NASA's Commercial Crew Program. This are going to be actually the 3rd launch and also 2nd purpose to the space station for Hague, who was chosen as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has spent 203 times precede.Hague was birthed as well as raised in Kansas but has actually crisscrossed the nation for university and also profession. He got degrees coming from the USA Air Troop Academy in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Modern Technology in Cambridge, and also he went to the USA Flying force Examination Fly Institution at Edwards Flying Force Base in California. Hague's armed forces occupation has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., as well as consisted of a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague moved coming from the Aviation service to the USA Area Interject 2020 after serving as the Room Pressure's supervisor of test and also evaluation at the Government.No stranger to new areas, Hague clearly remembers creating his initial travel to Johnson when he was questioning to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no suggestion what to count on, as well as it was a bit frustrating. I understood everybody was enjoying me and also determining me," he claimed. "Thankfully, although I had not been picked at that point, I obtained an additional opportunity a few years later on. It is actually a quite wonderful area.".Hague completed his rocketeer training in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st astronaut training class. He was the first astronaut coming from that group to become assigned to an objective, which released in October 2018 but was actually aborted quickly after departure. His upcoming spaceflight took place in 2019, when he signed up with 3 of his friends-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has actually created many moments at Johnson, yet one that sticks out is his adventure functioning onsite amidst the 2013 authorities shutdown. "I'm active-duty army so I still related to work," he revealed. "I always remember being actually onsite as well as the center being actually entirely vacant. Managing to use around a vacant grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was actually calm and unique." It was additionally an examine of what lots of Johnson workers experienced throughout the widespread as well as how NASA preserves day-and-night help for spaceflight procedures regardless of extenuating scenarios.Hague now expects an additional quest to reduced Planet track. NASA and SpaceX representatives currently prepare to release the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team is going to take off coming from Release Intricate 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Monster spacecraft.Hague as well as Gorbonov are going to become members of the Trip 72 staff aboard the station. They will definitely participate in NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, as well as are going to devote about 6 months carrying out scientific study in microgravity and also finishing a variety of operational tasks just before returning home.More particulars about the mission as well as team can be found through adhering to the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or even commercial team on Facebook. You can likewise adhere to @astrohague on X and Instagram.