.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston contains an assortment of one-of-a-kind obligations and also benefits. Those include being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is right now readying to introduce to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th spinning objective under NASA's Commercial Staff System. This will definitely be the 3rd launch and also 2nd mission to the spaceport station for Hague, who was actually chosen as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has actually devoted 203 times in space.Hague was actually birthed and raised in Kansas however has actually crisscrossed the country for college and also occupation. He gained levels from the United States Air Force Institute in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and he went to the U.S. Air Force Exam Pilot Institution at Edwards Air Force Bottom in California. Hague's military job has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and also consisted of a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Air Force to the United State Space Interject 2020 after acting as the Space Pressure's supervisor of exam and also analysis at the Government.No stranger to brand-new areas, Hague clearly recalls making his initial trip to Johnson when he was speaking with to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no idea what to anticipate, and also it was actually a little bit difficult. I understood everybody was enjoying me and evaluating me," he said. "The good news is, despite the fact that I had not been selected then, I obtained one more odds a handful of years later. It is actually a pretty magical spot.".Hague finished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st astronaut training class. He was the initial rocketeer from that group to be delegated to a mission, which released in October 2018 however was actually miscarried not long after takeoff. His upcoming spaceflight developed in 2019, when he participated in 3 of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has created a lot of moments at Johnson, yet one that stands apart is his knowledge operating onsite surrounded by the 2013 federal government closure. "I'm active-duty army so I still concerned function," he detailed. "I keep in mind being onsite and also the center being totally empty. Being able to use around a vacant grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was tranquil as well as surreal." It was actually likewise a preview of what a lot of Johnson workers experienced during the course of the pandemic and how NASA keeps continuous help for spaceflight operations irrespective of mitigating conditions.Hague now expects yet another experience to reduced Earth orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX authorities currently organize to introduce the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team is going to lift off coming from Release Intricate 40 from the Cape Canaveral Space Troop Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Dragon space capsule.Hague and Gorbonov are going to enter of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the station. They will certainly join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and will certainly devote regarding 6 months performing clinical research in microgravity as well as accomplishing a range of operational tasks just before returning home.More particulars concerning the goal and also staff may be located through adhering to the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or even industrial workers on Facebook. You can also adhere to @astrohague on X and Instagram.