.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston contains a range of one-of-a-kind accountabilities and also advantages. Those feature being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.One of those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is actually right now prepping to introduce to the International Spaceport Station in addition to Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational goal under NASA's Industrial Workers Program. This are going to be the third launch as well as second objective to the space station for Hague, that was actually picked as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has devoted 203 times in space.Hague was actually birthed and also increased in Kansas but has actually crisscrossed the country for college and also profession. He gained degrees coming from the United States Sky Troop Institute in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Innovation in Cambridge, and he went to the U.S. Flying force Test Fly University at Edwards Aviation Service Foundation in California. Hague's army occupation has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., as well as consisted of a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transmitted coming from the Aviation service to the United State Room Interject 2020 after functioning as the Area Pressure's supervisor of test as well as evaluation at the Government.Familiar with brand new places, Hague strongly recalls creating his first journey to Johnson when he was speaking with to join NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no concept what to anticipate, as well as it was actually a little bit overwhelming. I knew everybody was enjoying me as well as judging me," he claimed. "Fortunately, despite the fact that I wasn't picked after that, I received another chance a handful of years later on. It's a rather magical spot.".Hague accomplished his astronaut training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st rocketeer class. He was the 1st rocketeer coming from that group to be assigned to an objective, which launched in Oct 2018 yet was miscarried soon after departure. His next spaceflight developed in 2019, when he signed up with 3 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 memories at Johnson, but one that stands out is his experience functioning onsite in the middle of the 2013 federal government shutdown. "I'm active-duty army so I still came to operate," he revealed. "I bear in mind being onsite and also the facility being fully unfilled. Managing to use around an empty campus on the free-range bikes-- it was calm as well as unique." It was also a sneak peek of what several Johnson employees experienced during the course of the astronomical and also exactly how NASA preserves day-and-night assistance for spaceflight procedures irrespective of extenuating circumstances.Hague currently looks ahead to an additional trip to reduced Planet orbit. NASA and SpaceX authorities presently prepare to release the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff will definitely take off coming from Introduce Sophisticated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Space Troop Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Monster space probe.Hague and Gorbonov will become members of the Exploration 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will certainly participate in NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and also are going to spend concerning 6 months performing clinical study in microgravity as well as accomplishing a stable of working tasks just before coming back home.Even more particulars about the objective and also team can be discovered through following the Crew-9 weblog, @commercial_crew on X, or even commercial team on Facebook. You can easily also comply with @astrohague on X and also Instagram.