.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston carries a range of special accountabilities and benefits. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Among those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is now preparing to introduce to the International Spaceport Station alongside Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine rotational purpose under NASA's Industrial Crew Course. This will certainly be actually the 3rd launch and second objective to the space station for Hague, who was decided on as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and also has actually spent 203 times in space.Hague was birthed and also elevated in Kansas but has actually crisscrossed the country for university and also career. He earned degrees from the USA Sky Troop Academy in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Technology in Cambridge, as well as he joined the united state Aviation service Exam Captain Institution at Edwards Air Force Foundation in California. Hague's military profession has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., as well as featured a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transmitted coming from the Flying force to the United State Area Force in 2020 after acting as the Room Pressure's supervisor of examination and examination at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand-new locations, Hague clearly recalls making his initial excursion to Johnson when he was actually questioning to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no concept what to anticipate, and also it was actually a little bit difficult. I recognized everyone was seeing me as well as determining me," he claimed. "Luckily, despite the fact that I wasn't selected after that, I acquired yet another odds a handful of years eventually. It's a quite wonderful location.".Hague finished his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st rocketeer course. He was actually the first astronaut from that team to become designated to an objective, which released in Oct 2018 but was actually miscarried shortly after launch. His following 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 Space Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has brought in many minds at Johnson, but one that sticks out is his experience working onsite among the 2013 government cessation. "I am actually active-duty armed forces so I still pertained to work," he clarified. "I remember being onsite as well as the facility being entirely vacant. Having the capacity to use around an unfilled university on the free-range bikes-- it was quiet as well as surreal." It was likewise a sneak peek of what a lot of Johnson workers experienced throughout the widespread and also just how NASA preserves nonstop help for spaceflight operations regardless of mitigating conditions.Hague currently looks ahead to one more trip to low Earth orbit. NASA and also SpaceX authorities currently consider to release the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers is going to ascend coming from Release Complicated 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Space Force Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as well as Dragon spacecraft.Hague as well as Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Trip 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will definitely sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and will spend about 6 months administering scientific analysis in microgravity and also accomplishing a variety of functional tasks just before coming back home.More details about the goal as well as team could be discovered by observing the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or even commercial crew on Facebook. You can also adhere to @astrohague on X and Instagram.