.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston carries a wide array of special tasks and benefits. Those include being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is currently readying to release to the International Spaceport Station in addition to Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational purpose under NASA's Industrial Workers Program. This will definitely be the third launch as well as 2nd mission to the space station for Hague, that was actually decided on as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has actually spent 203 days precede.Hague was actually born and also elevated in Kansas but has actually crisscrossed the nation for college and occupation. He earned degrees from the United States Air Force School in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, as well as he participated in the united state Flying force Exam Fly University at Edwards Flying Force Foundation in California. Hague's army profession has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., as well as consisted of a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transmitted coming from the Flying force to the U.S. Room Force in 2020 after acting as the Area Pressure's supervisor of examination and assessment at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand-new places, Hague vividly remembers creating his first excursion to Johnson when he was actually speaking with to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no concept what to anticipate, as well as it was actually a little mind-boggling. I recognized everybody was viewing me as well as evaluating me," he stated. "Fortunately, although I had not been selected then, I got yet another odds a couple of years later on. It's a fairly wonderful area.".Hague finished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st astronaut class. He was the very first rocketeer coming from that team to be assigned to a mission, which introduced in October 2018 yet was aborted shortly after departure. His following spaceflight happened in 2019, when he joined 3 of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has brought in a lot of minds at Johnson, but one that stands apart is his knowledge working onsite amid the 2013 government cessation. "I am actually active-duty armed forces so I still involved work," he clarified. "I don't forget being onsite and also the facility being actually entirely empty. Being able to use around an unfilled campus on the free-range bikes-- it was actually relaxed and unique." It was likewise an examine of what several Johnson staff members experienced during the astronomical and also just how NASA keeps round-the-clock help for spaceflight operations irrespective of mitigating conditions.Hague currently expects another adventure to reduced Earth orbit. NASA and also SpaceX officials currently intend to release the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew will take off coming from Launch Complex 40 from the Cape Canaveral Room Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Monster space probe.Hague and Gorbonov are going to become members of the Trip 72 workers aboard the station. They are going to join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and will certainly invest concerning six months performing scientific study in microgravity and accomplishing a variety of operational activities before coming back home.Additional particulars concerning the mission as well as staff may be found by adhering to the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or commercial workers on Facebook. You can additionally follow @astrohague on X and Instagram.