.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston accommodates a range of one-of-a-kind duties as well as privileges. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is now preparing to release to the International Spaceport Station together with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine spinning objective under NASA's Industrial Staff Course. This will definitely be actually the 3rd launch as well as 2nd objective to the space station for Hague, who was decided on as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has spent 203 times precede.Hague was born and raised in Kansas but has actually crisscrossed the country for university as well as career. He made degrees from the USA Sky Troop Academy in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Principle of Technology in Cambridge, as well as he joined the U.S. Aviation service Test Fly University at Edwards Air Force Bottom in California. Hague's military job has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and featured a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transmitted coming from the Flying force to the U.S. Space Interject 2020 after functioning as the Area Power's supervisor of test and also evaluation at the Pentagon.No stranger to new locations, Hague vividly recalls producing his first vacation to Johnson when he was actually questioning to participate in NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no suggestion what to expect, as well as it was a bit difficult. I understood every person was actually seeing me and also judging me," he said. "Fortunately, even though I had not been chosen after that, I got one more odds a couple of years later on. It is actually a quite enchanting spot.".Hague finished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st rocketeer class. He was the very first astronaut from that team to become delegated to a mission, which released in October 2018 but was miscarried quickly after takeoff. His upcoming spaceflight took place in 2019, when he participated in three of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has brought in a lot of moments at Johnson, yet one that attracts attention is his adventure working onsite among the 2013 federal government closure. "I am actually active-duty army so I still pertained to work," he explained. "I remember being actually onsite and also the center being entirely vacant. Having the capacity to ride around a vacant grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was actually tranquil and unique." It was likewise a preview of what several Johnson staff members experienced during the course of the pandemic and just how NASA maintains continuous support for spaceflight functions irrespective of mitigating conditions.Hague right now expects an additional journey to reduced The planet orbit. NASA and also SpaceX authorities currently intend to launch the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff is going to take off from Introduce Complex 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Area Troop Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Monster spacecraft.Hague and Gorbonov will enter of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the terminal. They are going to join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and will definitely devote concerning 6 months administering medical investigation in microgravity as well as completing a series of functional activities before returning home.More details regarding the purpose and team may be discovered through complying with the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or even business workers on Facebook. You can easily likewise observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.