.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston contains a range of unique obligations and opportunities. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.One of those astronauts-- Scar Hague-- is currently readying to introduce to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational purpose under NASA's Industrial Staff Program. This will be actually the 3rd launch and also second objective to the spaceport station for Hague, that was decided on as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has devoted 203 days in space.Hague was birthed and also elevated in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the country for university and career. He made degrees from the United States Sky Troop Academy in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Principle of Modern Technology in Cambridge, as well as he joined the U.S. Flying force Examination Fly University at Edwards Flying Force Base in California. Hague's armed forces job has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., as well as featured a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague moved coming from the Air Force to the USA Room Force in 2020 after working as the Area Power's director of examination and also assessment at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand new locations, Hague strongly recalls creating his 1st vacation to Johnson when he was speaking with to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no concept what to expect, as well as it was actually a bit difficult. I recognized everybody was actually viewing me and also evaluating me," he claimed. "Fortunately, despite the fact that I wasn't picked then, I got an additional possibility a few years eventually. It's a fairly magical place.".Hague completed his astronaut training in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st rocketeer class. He was the 1st astronaut from that group to become assigned to a mission, which introduced in October 2018 but was aborted soon after launch. His upcoming spaceflight happened in 2019, when he signed up with three of his schoolmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has brought in a lot of memories at Johnson, however one that stands out is his experience operating onsite among the 2013 authorities shutdown. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still involved work," he detailed. "I always remember being onsite as well as the center being totally vacant. Having the ability to ride around an unfilled school on the free-range bikes-- it was actually calm and surreal." It was actually additionally a sneak peek of what several Johnson employees experienced during the course of the global and how NASA sustains round-the-clock assistance for spaceflight functions regardless of extenuating situations.Hague currently expects another trip to low Planet orbit. NASA and also SpaceX authorities presently plan to release the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will ascend from Introduce Complicated 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Troop Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Dragon space probe.Hague as well as Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Trip 72 crew aboard the terminal. They will definitely join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and also will invest regarding six months administering clinical investigation in microgravity and also completing a series of working activities prior to coming back home.More details about the objective and also workers may be found through adhering to the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or commercial team on Facebook. You can easily also follow @astrohague on X and also Instagram.