.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston holds a wide array of unique obligations and also privileges. Those include being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is actually currently preparing to introduce to the International Spaceport Station together with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning mission under NASA's Industrial Team Course. This are going to be the third launch as well as 2nd objective to the space station for Hague, who was actually chosen as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has invested 203 times precede.Hague was actually born and also raised in Kansas but has crisscrossed the nation for university as well as job. He got levels coming from the USA Sky Force School in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, and also he went to the united state Flying force Test Aviator College at Edwards Aviation Service Foundation in The Golden State. Hague's armed forces 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 transmitted coming from the Aviation service to the U.S. Space Interject 2020 after working as the Space Force's supervisor of exam and examination at the Government.No stranger to brand new spots, Hague vividly recalls producing his very first trip to Johnson when he was interviewing to sign up with NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no idea what to expect, and also it was actually a little bit frustrating. I recognized everyone was actually enjoying me and judging me," he said. "Fortunately, despite the fact that I wasn't decided on after that, I obtained an additional opportunity a few years later on. It is actually a quite wonderful place.".Hague finished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st astronaut class. He was the very first rocketeer from that team to be appointed to a goal, which launched in October 2018 but was miscarried quickly after takeoff. His next spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he joined three of his friends-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has actually brought in several minds at Johnson, but one that stands apart is his knowledge operating onsite amidst the 2013 federal government closure. "I am actually active-duty armed forces so I still came to operate," he revealed. "I bear in mind being actually onsite and the facility being fully vacant. Managing to use around an empty campus on the free-range bikes-- it was relaxed and unique." It was actually likewise a sneak peek of what many Johnson workers experienced throughout the widespread as well as exactly how NASA maintains nonstop help for spaceflight functions irrespective of extenuating situations.Hague right now looks ahead to one more journey to low The planet track. NASA and also SpaceX authorities currently organize to release the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew is going to lift off coming from Introduce Intricate 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Area Force Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Dragon spacecraft.Hague and also Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Exploration 72 team aboard the terminal. They will participate in NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and will spend regarding six months carrying out scientific research study in microgravity and also completing a stable of working activities before coming back home.Additional details concerning the objective and also staff could be found by following the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or even business workers on Facebook. You can easily likewise observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.