.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston carries a range of one-of-a-kind responsibilities as well as privileges. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is currently readying to introduce to the International Spaceport Station together with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning objective under NASA's Commercial Crew Plan. This will certainly be actually the 3rd launch and second purpose to the spaceport station for Hague, who was picked as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has actually invested 203 days in space.Hague was birthed and also increased in Kansas however has crisscrossed the nation for university as well as job. He made degrees from the United States Sky Troop School in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Principle of Modern Technology in Cambridge, as well as he went to the united state Air Force Test Captain University at Edwards Flying Force Bottom in The Golden State. Hague's army profession has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and also included a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague moved from the Aviation service to the U.S. Area Force in 2020 after functioning as the Space Force's supervisor of exam as well as assessment at the Government.No stranger to brand-new spots, Hague vividly recollects making his very first trip to Johnson when he was interviewing to participate in NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no suggestion what to anticipate, and also it was a bit frustrating. I understood every person was actually enjoying me as well as evaluating me," he claimed. "Luckily, although I had not been selected at that point, I received another possibility a few years later on. It is actually a quite enchanting spot.".Hague finished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st astronaut lesson. He was actually the very first astronaut from that group to be appointed to a goal, which released in Oct 2018 however was aborted not long after departure. His following spaceflight happened in 2019, when he participated in three 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 actually created many memories at Johnson, yet one that sticks out is his knowledge operating onsite amidst the 2013 authorities closure. "I'm active-duty army so I still came to operate," he described. "I always remember being onsite and the center being actually totally unfilled. Managing to use around an unfilled school on the free-range bikes-- it was actually tranquil and unique." It was actually additionally a sneak peek of what several Johnson employees experienced in the course of the pandemic as well as how NASA keeps continuous assistance for spaceflight procedures regardless of extenuating circumstances.Hague right now expects one more trip to reduced Earth orbit. NASA and also SpaceX authorities presently prepare to launch the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will definitely lift off coming from Introduce Intricate 40 from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Dragon space probe.Hague as well as Gorbonov will become members of the Exploration 72 team aboard the station. They will certainly sign up with NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and will spend concerning six months administering medical research in microgravity and also finishing a range of functional tasks prior to returning home.Additional information about the purpose as well as staff may be discovered through complying with the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or office team on Facebook. You can easily likewise follow @astrohague on X and also Instagram.