.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston holds a range of unique obligations and also benefits. Those consist of being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those astronauts-- Scar Hague-- is actually right now preparing to launch to the International Space Station alongside Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th spinning goal under NASA's Commercial Staff Course. This will be actually the third launch as well as 2nd purpose to the spaceport station for Hague, that was actually decided on as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has actually spent 203 days in space.Hague was actually birthed and elevated in Kansas yet has crisscrossed the country for university and also profession. He made degrees from the USA Air Troop Academy in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, and also he joined the U.S. Flying force Test Fly University at Edwards Flying Force Base in The Golden State. Hague's military occupation has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and consisted of a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague moved from the Flying force to the USA Space Force in 2020 after acting as the Space Force's supervisor of examination as well as examination at the Government.Familiar with brand-new areas, Hague strongly remembers creating his initial trip to Johnson when he was interviewing to sign up with NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no idea what to anticipate, and also it was actually a bit difficult. I knew everyone was actually viewing me as well as evaluating me," he stated. "Luckily, despite the fact that I had not been picked then, I received another odds a handful of years eventually. It's a pretty wonderful area.".Hague accomplished his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st rocketeer course. He was the very first rocketeer from that team to become appointed to a mission, which launched in Oct 2018 yet was actually miscarried not long after takeoff. His following spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he joined 3 of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has made several moments at Johnson, but one that attracts attention is his knowledge working onsite amidst the 2013 authorities cessation. "I'm active-duty army so I still concerned function," he explained. "I always remember being actually onsite as well as the facility being actually totally unfilled. Being able to ride around an unfilled grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was tranquil and surreal." It was actually also an examine of what a lot of Johnson workers experienced during the course of the astronomical and also how NASA keeps day-and-night support for spaceflight functions irrespective of mitigating situations.Hague currently expects another trip to low Planet track. NASA as well as SpaceX authorities presently plan to launch the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff will take off coming from Release Sophisticated 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Space Troop Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Monster spacecraft.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to become members of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the station. They will definitely participate in NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and will invest regarding 6 months conducting clinical investigation in microgravity and also accomplishing a series of operational activities before returning home.Additional details about the mission and also crew can be located through adhering to the Crew-9 blog post, @commercial_crew on X, or commercial crew on Facebook. You may additionally observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.