.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston accommodates a range of unique duties and advantages. Those include being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.One of those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is currently preparing to introduce to the International Spaceport Station together with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational purpose under NASA's Business Workers Program. This will be actually the third launch and second objective to the space station for Hague, that was chosen as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and also has actually invested 203 times in space.Hague was birthed and elevated in Kansas but has crisscrossed the country for university and career. He earned degrees from the USA Air Force Institute in Colorado and the Massachusetts Principle of Modern Technology in Cambridge, and also he joined the USA Flying force Test Captain Institution at Edwards Aviation Service Base in California. Hague's military occupation has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and also featured a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transmitted coming from the Flying force to the U.S. Space Interject 2020 after working as the Room Force's supervisor of examination and also assessment at the Government.Familiar with brand-new locations, Hague vividly recollects creating his initial journey to Johnson when he was actually questioning to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no suggestion what to expect, and also it was actually a little bit overwhelming. I recognized every person was seeing me as well as judging me," he mentioned. "The good news is, although I had not been picked after that, I received an additional chance a couple of years eventually. It is actually a fairly enchanting place.".Hague completed his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st rocketeer lesson. He was the initial astronaut from that team to become appointed to a mission, which released in October 2018 but was actually miscarried not long after launch. His upcoming spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he joined three of his friends-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has actually brought in numerous moments at Johnson, however one that stands apart is his expertise working onsite amidst the 2013 federal government shutdown. "I am actually active-duty army so I still involved function," he explained. "I remember being onsite and the center being entirely empty. Managing to ride around an empty grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was peaceful and also unique." It was actually likewise an examine of what a lot of Johnson staff members experienced throughout the global as well as how NASA preserves continuous support for spaceflight functions despite mitigating conditions.Hague now looks ahead to an additional adventure to low Planet orbit. NASA and SpaceX representatives currently intend to launch the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team is going to ascend from Launch Complex 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Area Force Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Dragon space capsule.Hague and Gorbonov are going to enter of the Exploration 72 team aboard the station. They will definitely join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and also will invest about six months performing scientific study in microgravity and also finishing a stable of operational tasks prior to coming back home.Additional details about the objective and also staff could be found by complying with the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or even office team on Facebook. You may likewise observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.