.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston contains an assortment of unique tasks and opportunities. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is actually right now preparing to release to the International Space Station alongside Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning goal under NASA's Industrial Staff Program. This are going to be actually the 3rd launch and also second mission to the spaceport station for Hague, who was chosen as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and also has actually invested 203 days precede.Hague was actually birthed as well as elevated in Kansas however has actually crisscrossed the country for college as well as job. He earned degrees from the United States Sky Force Academy in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, and he joined the U.S. Flying force Examination Captain Institution at Edwards Air Force Foundation in The Golden State. Hague's military job has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and also featured a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague moved coming from the Aviation service to the U.S. Room Force in 2020 after serving as the Room Force's supervisor of exam as well as assessment at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand-new spots, Hague clearly remembers making his initial trip to Johnson when he was interviewing to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no concept what to count on, and also it was actually a bit difficult. I knew everybody was seeing me and determining me," he mentioned. "Thankfully, although I wasn't decided on then, I obtained yet another possibility a couple of years later. It's a pretty enchanting place.".Hague finished his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st rocketeer class. He was the very first rocketeer from that team to be designated to a goal, which introduced in Oct 2018 but was aborted quickly after launch. His upcoming spaceflight took place in 2019, when he joined 3 of his schoolmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has created a lot of memories at Johnson, however one that stands out is his experience working onsite surrounded by the 2013 federal government shutdown. "I am actually active-duty army so I still related to operate," he described. "I don't forget being actually onsite as well as the facility being actually entirely empty. Being able to ride around a vacant school on the free-range bikes-- it was relaxed and surreal." It was additionally an examine of what several Johnson staff members experienced throughout the astronomical and how NASA maintains nonstop support for spaceflight procedures despite extenuating conditions.Hague currently looks ahead to yet another trip to low The planet orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX authorities presently intend to introduce the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will certainly lift off coming from Launch Complicated 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Troop Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule.Hague and Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Trip 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and will definitely invest about six months carrying out clinical study in microgravity as well as completing a series of operational tasks before returning home.Additional information concerning the objective as well as team can be discovered through complying with the Crew-9 blog post, @commercial_crew on X, or office team on Facebook. You may likewise follow @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.