.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston contains a selection of unique obligations and also privileges. Those include being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.One of those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is actually now readying to introduce to the International Spaceport Station in addition to Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning objective under NASA's Office Team Program. This are going to be actually the third launch and also second objective to the space station for Hague, that was picked as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has devoted 203 times precede.Hague was actually born as well as increased in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the nation for university and job. He got degrees from the USA Air Force School in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Principle of Modern Technology in Cambridge, as well as he joined the U.S. Flying force Exam Fly College at Edwards Flying Force Bottom in The Golden State. Hague's military occupation has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and also featured a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague moved from the Aviation service to the United State Room Force in 2020 after acting as the Space Pressure's director of test and also assessment at the Government.No stranger to brand-new locations, Hague strongly remembers producing his initial travel to Johnson when he was questioning to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no suggestion what to count on, and it was actually a little bit frustrating. I recognized every person was actually enjoying me and evaluating me," he stated. "Luckily, even though I had not been decided on then, I obtained another chance a handful of years eventually. It's a fairly enchanting area.".Hague completed his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st astronaut lesson. He was actually the 1st astronaut coming from that group to be assigned to an objective, which introduced in October 2018 however was actually aborted not long after takeoff. His following spaceflight happened in 2019, when he joined three of his schoolmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually created numerous moments at Johnson, but one that attracts attention is his knowledge functioning onsite among the 2013 federal government closure. "I am actually active-duty armed forces so I still involved function," he clarified. "I always remember being actually onsite and the center being actually fully vacant. Having the capacity to ride around a vacant campus on the free-range bikes-- it was tranquil and unique." It was also a preview of what several Johnson employees experienced during the course of the global and also how NASA preserves continuous help for spaceflight procedures regardless of extenuating scenarios.Hague now looks ahead to an additional quest to reduced Planet track. NASA as well as SpaceX representatives presently plan to launch the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff will lift off from Introduce Intricate 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Room Troop Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Monster space probe.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to become members of the Trip 72 workers aboard the station. They will definitely sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, as well as will invest about 6 months carrying out medical research study in microgravity and accomplishing a range of operational tasks before returning home.Additional details concerning the objective and also team may be located through following the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or even commercial team on Facebook. You can easily also adhere to @astrohague on X and Instagram.