.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston accommodates a selection of special tasks as well as privileges. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is now prepping to release to the International Spaceport Station alongside Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning objective under NASA's Commercial Crew System. This will certainly be actually the 3rd launch and 2nd purpose to the spaceport station for Hague, that was actually selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has spent 203 days precede.Hague was born and also raised in Kansas but has actually crisscrossed the nation for university and also profession. He made levels coming from the United States Sky Force Academy in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Modern Technology in Cambridge, as well as he participated in the U.S. Flying force Test Captain University at Edwards Aviation Service Bottom in California. Hague's armed forces profession has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and included a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Air Force to the USA Area Interject 2020 after serving as the Space Pressure's supervisor of examination as well as evaluation at the Government.No stranger to brand new places, Hague vividly remembers producing his first excursion to Johnson when he was speaking with to participate in NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no suggestion what to anticipate, and it was actually a little bit overwhelming. I recognized everyone was viewing me and also determining me," he claimed. "Thankfully, even though I wasn't picked after that, I got an additional possibility a few years later. It is actually a rather wonderful place.".Hague finished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st rocketeer lesson. He was the very first astronaut from that team to become delegated to a purpose, which launched in Oct 2018 but was aborted not long after departure. His following spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he joined 3 of his classmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has actually created a lot of minds at Johnson, but one that stands out is his expertise operating onsite in the middle of the 2013 authorities cessation. "I'm active-duty army so I still involved function," he clarified. "I always remember being actually onsite and also the center being actually totally vacant. Having the ability to use around an unfilled school on the free-range bikes-- it was tranquil as well as unique." It was additionally an examine of what many Johnson employees experienced throughout the astronomical as well as just how NASA sustains nonstop assistance for spaceflight functions no matter mitigating conditions.Hague now looks ahead to another experience to reduced Planet track. NASA and also SpaceX officials presently plan to release the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team is going to lift off coming from Release Complicated 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Area Force Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Dragon space probe.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the station. They will definitely participate in NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, as well as are going to spend concerning six months conducting medical study in microgravity and finishing a range of functional tasks prior to coming back home.More particulars concerning the objective and workers could be discovered by complying with the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or office crew on Facebook. You can easily also follow @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.