.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston holds a wide array of special obligations and also privileges. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.One of those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is now prepping to release to the International Spaceport Station along with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine spinning goal under NASA's Business Crew Plan. This will definitely be the third launch as well as 2nd purpose to the spaceport station for Hague, that was picked as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has actually devoted 203 times in space.Hague was actually birthed and also elevated in Kansas however has crisscrossed the nation for college as well as career. He gained levels coming from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado and the Massachusetts Principle of Innovation in Cambridge, and he joined the USA Aviation service Examination Pilot Institution at Edwards Air Force Bottom in California. Hague's military career has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and also consisted of a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Flying force to the U.S. Area Interject 2020 after serving as the Space Power's supervisor of exam and analysis at the Pentagon.Familiar with brand-new areas, Hague vividly remembers creating his very first trip to Johnson when he was speaking with to sign up with NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no suggestion what to expect, as well as it was actually a bit frustrating. I knew everyone was actually viewing me and judging me," he pointed out. "Fortunately, despite the fact that I had not been selected after that, I received an additional odds a couple of years later. It is actually a rather magical spot.".Hague accomplished his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st astronaut training class. He was the very first astronaut from that team to be designated to an objective, which introduced in Oct 2018 but was miscarried shortly after departure. His following spaceflight happened in 2019, when he signed up with 3 of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has brought in a lot of memories at Johnson, but one that sticks out is his adventure working onsite in the middle of the 2013 government closure. "I am actually active-duty army so I still came to work," he revealed. "I remember being actually onsite and also the facility being actually totally unfilled. Managing to use around an empty grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was actually calm and also surreal." It was actually also a sneak peek of what several Johnson staff members experienced during the astronomical and just how NASA keeps day-and-night assistance for spaceflight operations no matter mitigating situations.Hague right now looks ahead to an additional experience to low The planet track. NASA as well as SpaceX authorities presently plan to introduce the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will definitely lift off coming from Introduce Complicated 40 from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Monster spacecraft.Hague and also Gorbonov will enter of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will certainly participate in NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and also will definitely devote about six months conducting clinical investigation in microgravity as well as finishing a stable of operational tasks prior to coming back home.Additional particulars about the goal and also crew could be discovered through observing the Crew-9 blog post, @commercial_crew on X, or office crew on Facebook. You may also comply with @astrohague on X and also Instagram.