.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston carries an assortment of unique accountabilities as well as opportunities. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is actually now prepping to release to the International Spaceport Station together with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning objective under NASA's Industrial Team System. This are going to be the third launch and also second purpose to the spaceport station for Hague, that was chosen as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has devoted 203 times precede.Hague was actually born as well as elevated in Kansas yet has crisscrossed the country for college and career. He gained levels from the USA Sky Force School in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and he joined the united state Air Force Examination Fly Institution at Edwards Flying Force Bottom in California. Hague's armed forces profession has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and also featured a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transferred from the Air Force to the USA Space Force in 2020 after serving as the Space Power's supervisor of test and evaluation at the Pentagon.Familiar with brand new locations, Hague strongly remembers creating his first journey to Johnson when he was speaking with to sign up with NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no concept what to count on, as well as it was a little bit difficult. I knew everyone was seeing me and also evaluating me," he claimed. "Luckily, despite the fact that I wasn't selected at that point, I received one more possibility a couple of years later. It's a fairly magical place.".Hague finished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st rocketeer lesson. He was the very first astronaut from that group to be designated to a purpose, which released in October 2018 yet was miscarried quickly after takeoff. His next spaceflight took place in 2019, when he participated in 3 of his schoolmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has actually brought in many moments at Johnson, however one that stands apart is his experience working onsite among the 2013 federal government shutdown. "I'm active-duty military so I still related to function," he explained. "I remember being onsite and the facility being fully unfilled. Being able to use around an empty university on the free-range bikes-- it was actually relaxed and unique." It was actually also a sneak peek of what many Johnson employees experienced during the global and how NASA keeps day-and-night support for spaceflight functions regardless of mitigating scenarios.Hague currently looks ahead to another journey to low Planet track. NASA and also SpaceX representatives presently consider to introduce the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will take off from Introduce Complicated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Area Force Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Monster space capsule.Hague and Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Trip 72 team aboard the station. They will certainly join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and will devote concerning 6 months carrying out scientific analysis in microgravity and also completing a series of functional tasks prior to coming back home.More information about the objective as well as workers can be located through adhering to the Crew-9 weblog, @commercial_crew on X, or business workers on Facebook. You can likewise comply with @astrohague on X and Instagram.