.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston accommodates a wide array of distinct tasks as well as privileges. Those include being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is right now prepping to introduce to the International Spaceport Station along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth rotational objective under NASA's Business Crew System. This will be actually the third launch and also 2nd mission to the space station for Hague, who was actually selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has actually spent 203 times precede.Hague was birthed as well as elevated in Kansas but has actually crisscrossed the country for college and career. He made degrees from the United States Sky Force Academy in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, as well as he participated in the united state Air Force Examination Captain University at Edwards Flying Force Base in California. Hague's army occupation has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., as well as included a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Air Force to the USA Room Interject 2020 after functioning as the Area Power's supervisor of test and also examination at the Government.Familiar with brand new places, Hague strongly remembers making his very first trip to Johnson when he was actually speaking with to sign up with NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no idea what to anticipate, and also it was actually a little bit overwhelming. I knew every person was seeing me and evaluating me," he mentioned. "The good news is, even though I wasn't decided on after that, I obtained another odds a handful of years later on. It is actually a pretty wonderful spot.".Hague accomplished his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st astronaut lesson. He was the 1st rocketeer coming from that team to be appointed to an objective, which released in Oct 2018 however was actually miscarried quickly after takeoff. His upcoming spaceflight took place in 2019, when he participated in 3 of his friends-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has actually made several minds at Johnson, yet one that stands out is his expertise functioning onsite surrounded by the 2013 federal government cessation. "I am actually active-duty military so I still concerned operate," he detailed. "I don't forget being actually onsite and also the facility being actually entirely unfilled. Having the capacity to use around an unfilled university on the free-range bikes-- it was actually peaceful and unique." It was actually likewise an examine of what several Johnson workers experienced throughout the widespread and how NASA preserves nonstop assistance for spaceflight operations despite mitigating circumstances.Hague now expects yet another experience to low Earth track. NASA as well as SpaceX representatives currently organize to launch the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will lift off from Introduce Complex 40 from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as well as Dragon space capsule.Hague and also Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Exploration 72 team aboard the station. They will participate in NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, as well as will invest concerning six months performing medical study in microgravity and also completing a stable of working tasks prior to returning home.Even more information about the goal as well as staff may be found by complying with the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or even business workers on Facebook. You can additionally observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.