.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston contains a range of distinct duties and also benefits. Those include being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is currently prepping to launch to the International Space Station in addition to Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational mission under NASA's Commercial Staff Course. This will be the third launch as well as 2nd objective to the space station for Hague, who was actually picked as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has actually spent 203 days in space.Hague was birthed as well as raised in Kansas but has crisscrossed the country for college and career. He got degrees coming from the United States Sky Troop School in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Modern Technology in Cambridge, as well as he joined the U.S. Aviation service Examination Fly School at Edwards Flying Force Foundation in The Golden State. Hague's military profession has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and featured a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Aviation service to the USA Room Force in 2020 after serving as the Space Power's director of test and also examination at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand-new locations, Hague clearly recollects creating his first travel to Johnson when he was speaking with to sign up with NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no suggestion what to expect, as well as it was actually a bit difficult. I knew everyone was actually viewing me as well as evaluating me," he claimed. "Thankfully, although I wasn't decided on at that point, I obtained an additional chance a couple of years later on. It is actually a quite enchanting spot.".Hague accomplished his astronaut training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st astronaut training class. He was the very first rocketeer coming from that group to become assigned to a mission, which launched in Oct 2018 but was miscarried soon after departure. His following spaceflight took place in 2019, when he joined 3 of his classmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has actually brought in many memories at Johnson, but one that stands apart is his experience working onsite amidst the 2013 government shutdown. "I am actually active-duty armed forces so I still concerned work," he detailed. "I always remember being onsite and also the facility being fully vacant. Being able to use around an empty school on the free-range bikes-- it was actually quiet and also unique." It was likewise an examine of what several Johnson workers experienced throughout the widespread and also exactly how NASA maintains continuous help for spaceflight operations irrespective of mitigating conditions.Hague now expects an additional adventure to low Planet track. NASA and SpaceX representatives currently intend to launch the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff is going to lift off from Launch Intricate 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Space Troop Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft.Hague as well as Gorbonov will become members of the Expedition 72 team aboard the station. They are going to participate in NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and also are going to invest about six months carrying out scientific research study in microgravity as well as finishing a range of operational tasks prior to coming back home.Even more details about the purpose and workers may be located by adhering to the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or business workers on Facebook. You can easily additionally observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.