.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston carries an assortment of special responsibilities as well as opportunities. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is actually right now readying to introduce to the International Space Station in addition to Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational objective under NASA's Office Workers Program. This will be actually the third launch and also second goal to the space station for Hague, that was chosen as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and also has actually devoted 203 times in space.Hague was actually born and elevated in Kansas however has actually crisscrossed the country for university and also career. He made levels coming from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, and also he participated in the USA Aviation service Test Pilot Institution at Edwards Air Force Base in The Golden State. Hague's military occupation has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., as well as consisted of a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Aviation service to the United State Area Force in 2020 after acting as the Room Pressure's supervisor of exam and examination at the Pentagon.Familiar with new places, Hague strongly recollects creating his first journey to Johnson when he was actually interviewing to participate in NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no suggestion what to anticipate, and also it was actually a bit overwhelming. I recognized everyone was watching me as well as judging me," he pointed out. "Thankfully, despite the fact that I had not been selected after that, I received one more chance a few years later. It's a fairly magical spot.".Hague completed his astronaut training in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st rocketeer class. He was the first rocketeer from that team to be appointed to a purpose, which released in October 2018 yet was aborted not long after launch. His next spaceflight took place in 2019, when he signed up with 3 of his friends-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has created several memories at Johnson, however one that sticks out is his adventure functioning onsite among the 2013 authorities closure. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still related to work," he revealed. "I always remember being onsite and the facility being totally empty. Being able to use around a vacant school on the free-range bikes-- it was serene as well as surreal." It was likewise a sneak peek of what a lot of Johnson employees experienced during the pandemic and just how NASA maintains nonstop assistance for spaceflight operations regardless of extenuating situations.Hague currently looks ahead to one more quest to reduced Planet orbit. NASA and also SpaceX authorities presently prepare to release the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will certainly ascend coming from Launch Complex 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Force Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Dragon spacecraft.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to enter of the Exploration 72 workers aboard the terminal. They are going to participate in NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and also will certainly invest about six months performing clinical study in microgravity and accomplishing a series of functional activities prior to returning home.Additional information concerning the mission and also team could be discovered by observing the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or even commercial workers on Facebook. You can easily additionally adhere to @astrohague on X and also Instagram.