.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston contains a variety of unique tasks and also benefits. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.One of those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is now prepping to introduce to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th spinning purpose under NASA's Industrial Staff Plan. This will certainly be actually the 3rd launch and 2nd goal to the space station for Hague, who was chosen as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and also has spent 203 times in space.Hague was born as well as elevated in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the country for college and occupation. He earned levels from the United States Sky Troop Academy in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and also he attended the U.S. Air Force Test Fly School at Edwards Aviation Service Bottom in California. Hague's military job has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and included a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague moved from the Flying force to the USA Space Interject 2020 after serving as the Space Force's director of test and examination at the Pentagon.Familiar with brand-new locations, Hague vividly recollects producing his first journey to Johnson when he was interviewing to sign up with NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no idea what to count on, as well as it was a bit overwhelming. I recognized everybody was viewing me and evaluating me," he stated. "The good news is, despite the fact that I wasn't picked at that point, I got another opportunity a few years eventually. It is actually a rather enchanting location.".Hague completed his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st astronaut lesson. He was actually the initial astronaut from that group to become delegated to an objective, which released in October 2018 but was miscarried shortly after launch. His next spaceflight developed in 2019, when he joined three of his classmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually made a lot of moments at Johnson, however one that stands out is his experience working onsite among the 2013 federal government closure. "I'm active-duty military so I still pertained to work," he clarified. "I remember being onsite and also the facility being actually totally unfilled. Having the ability to use around an unfilled grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was relaxed and also unique." It was actually likewise a preview of what lots of Johnson staff members experienced in the course of the astronomical and also exactly how NASA keeps nonstop support for spaceflight functions no matter extenuating scenarios.Hague now expects one more adventure to low The planet track. NASA and also SpaceX officials presently plan to introduce the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers is going to lift off coming from Introduce Complicated 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Force Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Monster space capsule.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to enter of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the station. They will participate in NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and will definitely spend about six months conducting clinical research study in microgravity and accomplishing a stable of functional activities before returning home.Even more information concerning the objective as well as workers may be located by observing the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or industrial crew on Facebook. You can easily likewise adhere to @astrohague on X and Instagram.