.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston contains a range of one-of-a-kind duties and also advantages. Those consist of being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is actually right now prepping to release to the International Spaceport Station along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine rotational purpose under NASA's Business Team Program. This will certainly be actually the 3rd launch as well as 2nd objective to the spaceport station for Hague, that was actually selected as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has spent 203 times precede.Hague was actually birthed as well as elevated in Kansas but has crisscrossed the nation for university and job. He made levels from the USA Sky Troop Academy in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, and also he went to the U.S. Aviation service Exam Captain College at Edwards Flying Force Foundation in California. Hague's military occupation has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and included a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Air Force to the USA Room Force in 2020 after acting as the Room Pressure's supervisor of exam and analysis at the Pentagon.Familiar with brand new spots, Hague strongly recalls making his first vacation to Johnson when he was interviewing to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no concept what to anticipate, as well as it was actually a bit frustrating. I understood everybody was enjoying me as well as evaluating me," he pointed out. "Luckily, despite the fact that I had not been decided on after that, I got another odds a few years eventually. It's a pretty wonderful spot.".Hague finished his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st astronaut lesson. He was the very first astronaut coming from that team to be appointed to an objective, which introduced in October 2018 yet was miscarried shortly after departure. His upcoming spaceflight developed in 2019, when he participated in three of his friends-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has created numerous memories at Johnson, yet one that stands out is his expertise functioning onsite surrounded by the 2013 authorities closure. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still involved work," he explained. "I keep in mind being actually onsite and the center being actually entirely empty. Being able to use around an empty campus on the free-range bikes-- it was relaxed and unique." It was also a sneak peek of what lots of Johnson staff members experienced during the course of the pandemic as well as how NASA sustains round-the-clock support for spaceflight functions regardless of mitigating situations.Hague right now expects yet another trip to reduced Earth orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX officials currently consider to launch the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will definitely ascend from Introduce Complex 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Troop Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Dragon spacecraft.Hague as well as Gorbonov are going to enter of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will certainly sign up with NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and will certainly devote regarding 6 months administering medical research in microgravity as well as accomplishing a series of functional activities just before returning home.Even more details regarding the mission and also workers could be located through following the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or even office workers on Facebook. You can easily likewise comply with @astrohague on X and Instagram.