.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston carries a wide array of one-of-a-kind accountabilities and opportunities. Those consist of being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.One of those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is actually right now preparing to release to the International Space Station alongside Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning objective under NASA's Office Staff Program. This will certainly be the 3rd launch and also 2nd goal to the space station for Hague, that was actually decided on as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has actually devoted 203 times in space.Hague was birthed and also elevated in Kansas yet has crisscrossed the country for college and occupation. He gained degrees from the USA Air Troop Institute in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Modern Technology in Cambridge, as well as he attended the USA Flying force Examination Fly College at Edwards Flying Force Foundation in California. Hague's military occupation has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and consisted of a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague moved from the Air Force to the USA Space Interject 2020 after acting as the Room Pressure's director of exam and also assessment at the Government.Familiar with new locations, Hague strongly recalls creating his first trip to Johnson when he was interviewing to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no concept what to anticipate, as well as it was a bit frustrating. I knew everyone was watching me and also determining me," he stated. "The good news is, although I had not been picked after that, I acquired another chance a few years later on. It's a rather enchanting area.".Hague completed his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st astronaut course. He was actually the very first rocketeer coming from that team to be assigned to a purpose, which introduced in October 2018 however was miscarried soon after launch. His following spaceflight developed in 2019, when he joined 3 of his classmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually created many moments at Johnson, yet one that sticks out is his experience working onsite surrounded by the 2013 federal government shutdown. "I'm active-duty military so I still related to operate," he revealed. "I keep in mind being actually onsite as well as the facility being actually totally unfilled. Being able to use around an empty campus on the free-range bikes-- it was calm and also unique." It was also an examine of what lots of Johnson staff members experienced during the course of the widespread and also just how NASA sustains round-the-clock support for spaceflight functions irrespective of extenuating instances.Hague right now looks ahead to one more experience to low Planet orbit. NASA and SpaceX authorities presently organize to launch the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew will certainly lift off coming from Launch Intricate 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Space Troop Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft as well as Dragon spacecraft.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the station. They are going to join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and also are going to devote concerning six months conducting scientific study in microgravity and finishing a range of operational tasks prior to returning home.Even more details about the goal as well as staff can be located through adhering to the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or even commercial workers on Facebook. You may likewise adhere to @astrohague on X and also Instagram.