.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston carries an assortment of special accountabilities as well as advantages. Those include being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those astronauts-- Scar Hague-- is actually currently readying to introduce to the International Space Station together with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational purpose under NASA's Office Team Course. This will certainly be actually the 3rd launch and 2nd objective to the space station for Hague, who was actually decided on as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and also has spent 203 days precede.Hague was actually birthed and also elevated in Kansas however has actually crisscrossed the nation for college and also profession. He made levels coming from the United States Air Troop Institute in Colorado and the Massachusetts Principle of Innovation in Cambridge, and he went to the USA Air Force Examination Fly College at Edwards Flying Force Base in California. Hague's armed forces job has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and featured a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Flying force to the USA Space Force in 2020 after functioning as the Area Force's director of examination and examination at the Pentagon.Familiar with new locations, Hague clearly recalls producing his very first trip to Johnson when he was questioning to join NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no suggestion what to anticipate, and it was a little frustrating. I knew everybody was seeing me as well as evaluating me," he said. "Fortunately, even though I had not been decided on at that point, I got one more opportunity a few years later. It is actually a rather enchanting spot.".Hague completed his rocketeer training in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st astronaut training class. He was actually the very first rocketeer coming from that team to be designated to a purpose, which released in October 2018 but was miscarried quickly after departure. His upcoming spaceflight developed in 2019, when he participated in 3 of his friends-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has made a lot of moments at Johnson, yet one that stands out is his adventure working onsite surrounded by the 2013 federal government shutdown. "I am actually active-duty military so I still related to work," he revealed. "I bear in mind being onsite and also the facility being actually fully vacant. Managing to use around an empty grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was serene and surreal." It was additionally a sneak peek of what numerous Johnson employees experienced throughout the global and also how NASA sustains nonstop assistance for spaceflight operations despite mitigating situations.Hague right now looks ahead to one more journey to low Earth orbit. NASA and also SpaceX officials presently consider to introduce the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew will certainly lift off from Release Intricate 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Space Troop Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Monster space capsule.Hague as well as Gorbonov will become members of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will definitely participate in NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and will spend concerning six months administering scientific research study in microgravity and also accomplishing a series of working tasks before returning home.Additional information concerning the purpose and workers could be found through observing the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or business team on Facebook. You can additionally comply with @astrohague on X and also Instagram.