.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston contains a variety of one-of-a-kind duties and also advantages. Those include being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is currently preparing to launch to the International Spaceport Station in addition to Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational goal under NASA's Commercial Crew Program. This will definitely be actually the 3rd launch and also second goal to the spaceport station for Hague, who was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and also has spent 203 times in space.Hague was actually born as well as elevated in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the country for university as well as career. He gained levels from the USA Air Troop School in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, as well as he participated in the united state Aviation service Exam Captain Institution at Edwards Air Force Bottom in The Golden State. Hague's armed forces career has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., as well as featured a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transferred from the Aviation service to the U.S. Area Force in 2020 after acting as the Room Pressure's director of examination as well as evaluation at the Government.Familiar with brand new locations, Hague clearly remembers creating his first excursion to Johnson when he was actually questioning to participate in NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no concept what to anticipate, and it was actually a little mind-boggling. I recognized everyone was actually seeing me and also evaluating me," he stated. "Luckily, despite the fact that I had not been picked at that point, I got an additional odds a couple of years eventually. It's a quite enchanting place.".Hague completed his rocketeer training in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st astronaut lesson. He was actually the very first astronaut from that group to be designated to a purpose, which introduced in Oct 2018 however was miscarried shortly after takeoff. His upcoming spaceflight took place in 2019, when he signed up with 3 of his classmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has actually brought in a lot of moments at Johnson, however one that attracts attention is his expertise working onsite amidst the 2013 federal government shutdown. "I am actually active-duty armed forces so I still pertained to work," he discussed. "I bear in mind being actually onsite and also the facility being actually entirely vacant. Having the ability to use around an empty campus on the free-range bikes-- it was tranquil as well as unique." It was additionally a sneak peek of what many Johnson employees experienced during the global and also exactly how NASA maintains round-the-clock assistance for spaceflight functions no matter extenuating instances.Hague right now looks ahead to one more quest to reduced The planet orbit. NASA and also SpaceX representatives currently prepare to introduce the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff will definitely ascend from Introduce Complicated 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Troop Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as well as Dragon space capsule.Hague and also Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will sign up with NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and also will definitely invest concerning six months performing scientific research in microgravity and also accomplishing a range of functional activities just before coming back home.More information regarding the objective and also crew may be found by following the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or industrial workers on Facebook. You can additionally observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.