.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston carries a wide array of unique tasks and also privileges. Those consist of being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is actually now prepping to launch to the International Space Station together with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine rotational purpose under NASA's Industrial Crew Program. This are going to be the 3rd launch and also 2nd mission to the spaceport station for Hague, who was actually picked as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has spent 203 days precede.Hague was born as well as raised in Kansas however has crisscrossed the nation for university as well as profession. He earned levels coming from the United States Air Force School in Colorado and the Massachusetts Principle of Innovation in Cambridge, and also he attended the U.S. Aviation service Exam Aviator College at Edwards Flying Force Base in California. Hague's army job has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and also consisted of a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Air Force to the United State Area Interject 2020 after serving as the Room Power's supervisor of examination and also examination at the Government.Familiar with brand-new places, Hague strongly recollects producing his very first vacation to Johnson when he was speaking with to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no concept what to expect, and it was actually a bit difficult. I knew everybody was actually watching me and also determining me," he pointed out. "Thankfully, even though I had not been decided on at that point, I got one more chance a handful of years later. It is actually a rather wonderful place.".Hague completed his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st astronaut class. He was actually the initial astronaut from that team to be delegated to a mission, which launched in Oct 2018 but was miscarried quickly after takeoff. His upcoming spaceflight developed in 2019, when he signed up with three of his schoolmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually brought in many memories at Johnson, yet one that sticks out is his knowledge working onsite amid the 2013 government cessation. "I am actually active-duty armed forces so I still came to operate," he discussed. "I always remember being actually onsite and also the facility being actually totally vacant. Managing to use around an unfilled school on the free-range bikes-- it was quiet and also surreal." It was actually additionally a preview of what numerous Johnson workers experienced during the course of the widespread and how NASA maintains continuous help for spaceflight operations despite extenuating situations.Hague currently looks ahead to yet another journey to low Planet orbit. NASA and also SpaceX officials currently prepare to launch the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew will lift off from Introduce Sophisticated 40 from the Cape Canaveral Area Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft as well as Dragon space probe.Hague as well as Gorbonov will enter of the Exploration 72 team aboard the terminal. They will definitely participate in NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and also will spend concerning six months performing clinical research study in microgravity as well as completing a variety of functional tasks just before coming back home.Even more information regarding the goal and also workers could be discovered by adhering to the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or commercial crew on Facebook. You can easily likewise comply with @astrohague on X and also Instagram.