.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston accommodates a wide array of one-of-a-kind tasks and privileges. Those include being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.One of those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is now prepping to launch to the International Spaceport Station alongside Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth rotational goal under NASA's Business Workers Course. This will certainly be actually the third launch and also second objective to the spaceport station for Hague, that was actually decided on as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has actually devoted 203 days precede.Hague was born as well as increased in Kansas however has actually crisscrossed the nation for college and career. He earned degrees coming from the USA Air Troop Institute in Colorado and the Massachusetts Principle of Innovation in Cambridge, as well as he participated in the united state Flying force Examination Captain School at Edwards Air Force Foundation in The Golden State. Hague's armed forces job has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and also featured a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Flying force to the U.S. Room Interject 2020 after acting as the Space Pressure's supervisor of examination and evaluation at the Government.Familiar with brand new spots, Hague strongly recalls creating his 1st travel to Johnson when he was interviewing to sign up with NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no idea what to count on, and it was a little bit frustrating. I recognized everybody was enjoying me and also determining me," he mentioned. "Fortunately, despite the fact that I had not been decided on then, I acquired another opportunity a handful of years eventually. It is actually a quite wonderful place.".Hague accomplished his astronaut training in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st astronaut training class. He was the very first astronaut coming from that team to become appointed to a mission, which launched in October 2018 yet was actually miscarried shortly after departure. His following spaceflight happened in 2019, when he participated in 3 of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has brought in a lot of minds at Johnson, yet one that stands out is his knowledge working onsite amid the 2013 federal government shutdown. "I am actually active-duty armed forces so I still related to operate," he discussed. "I always remember being actually onsite and the center being actually entirely vacant. Having the capacity to ride around an unfilled university on the free-range bikes-- it was actually tranquil as well as unique." It was additionally a preview of what numerous Johnson staff members experienced in the course of the global and just how NASA maintains continuous assistance for spaceflight operations no matter mitigating conditions.Hague now expects another quest to low Planet track. NASA and also SpaceX authorities currently organize to introduce the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew will certainly take off from Introduce Sophisticated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Area Troop Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Monster space probe.Hague and also Gorbonov will enter of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the station. They are going to participate in NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, as well as will certainly invest concerning six months carrying out clinical analysis in microgravity and also completing a series of working activities prior to returning home.Even more details concerning the purpose as well as workers can be located by observing the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or even industrial team on Facebook. You can also comply with @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.