.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston holds a selection of distinct duties and also opportunities. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is now readying to introduce to the International Space Station in addition to Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning goal under NASA's Commercial Crew System. This will definitely be the 3rd launch and second objective to the space station for Hague, that was chosen as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has spent 203 times precede.Hague was birthed and also increased in Kansas however has actually crisscrossed the nation for college and also career. He made levels coming from the USA Air Force Academy in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Technology in Cambridge, and he attended the united state Air Force Test Fly Institution at Edwards Flying Force Base in California. Hague's armed forces career has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., as well as featured a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Flying force to the U.S. Space Interject 2020 after acting as the Room Force's supervisor of test and also examination at the Government.Familiar with new areas, Hague vividly recollects producing his very first vacation to Johnson when he was interviewing to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no suggestion what to count on, and also it was actually a bit frustrating. I recognized everybody was actually viewing me and also judging me," he pointed out. "Thankfully, even though I had not been chosen at that point, I got one more chance a couple of years eventually. It is actually a quite wonderful area.".Hague completed his rocketeer training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st rocketeer training class. He was actually the first rocketeer from that team to become designated to an objective, which released in Oct 2018 however was actually miscarried quickly after departure. His upcoming spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he signed up with 3 of his friends-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has brought in lots of moments at Johnson, however one that stands out is his adventure working onsite surrounded by the 2013 authorities cessation. "I'm active-duty military so I still concerned function," he detailed. "I bear in mind being actually onsite and also the facility being actually entirely empty. Managing to ride around an empty university on the free-range bikes-- it was actually calm as well as surreal." It was also a sneak peek of what several Johnson staff members experienced during the astronomical and also exactly how NASA preserves round-the-clock assistance for spaceflight functions no matter extenuating situations.Hague currently expects yet another experience to low Earth track. NASA and also SpaceX officials currently intend to release the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team is going to ascend from Introduce Sophisticated 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Space Troop Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Monster space capsule.Hague and also Gorbonov will enter of the Exploration 72 team aboard the terminal. They are going to sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and will invest concerning 6 months administering scientific investigation in microgravity and completing a variety of functional tasks just before coming back home.Even more details concerning the purpose as well as crew can be located by adhering to the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or office crew on Facebook. You can easily likewise observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.