.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston carries an assortment of special duties and privileges. Those include being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is right now readying to introduce to the International Spaceport Station in addition to Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th spinning objective under NASA's Office Crew Course. This will definitely be the third launch as well as 2nd goal to the space station for Hague, that was actually selected as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has actually devoted 203 days precede.Hague was actually born and raised in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the nation for university and also career. He earned levels from the United States Air Troop Academy in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, and also he participated in the U.S. Aviation service Examination Pilot School at Edwards Flying Force Bottom in California. Hague's armed forces occupation has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., as well as consisted of a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague moved from the Flying force to the U.S. Space Interject 2020 after functioning as the Space Pressure's director of examination and also analysis at the Government.Familiar with new locations, Hague clearly recalls making his first excursion to Johnson when he was actually interviewing to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no concept what to expect, and it was a bit frustrating. I recognized everybody was viewing me and evaluating me," he mentioned. "Fortunately, even though I had not been picked after that, I obtained yet another possibility a handful of years later. It's a fairly magical location.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st rocketeer class. He was the 1st rocketeer from that group to become assigned to a goal, which released in Oct 2018 however was actually miscarried shortly after takeoff. His following spaceflight took place in 2019, when he participated in three of his friends-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has made a lot of minds at Johnson, however one that sticks out is his adventure working onsite amidst the 2013 authorities closure. "I'm active-duty military so I still concerned work," he clarified. "I always remember being actually onsite and the center being totally unfilled. Having the capacity to use around an empty university on the free-range bikes-- it was serene as well as surreal." It was also an examine of what numerous Johnson staff members experienced in the course of the pandemic and also just how NASA sustains round-the-clock support for spaceflight procedures despite mitigating circumstances.Hague now looks ahead to an additional quest to low Earth orbit. NASA and SpaceX representatives currently organize to introduce the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff will certainly take off coming from Launch Sophisticated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Room Force Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Dragon space probe.Hague and also Gorbonov will become members of the Trip 72 workers aboard the station. They will definitely sign up with NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and will certainly invest about six months conducting scientific study in microgravity as well as accomplishing a range of functional tasks just before coming back home.Even more particulars about the purpose and also workers may be discovered by complying with the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or even industrial staff on Facebook. You can easily also observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.