.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston contains an assortment of unique tasks as well as benefits. Those feature being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is now readying to release to the International Space Station alongside Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational mission under NASA's Industrial Staff Plan. This are going to be actually the third launch as well as second purpose to the space station for Hague, who was actually picked as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has actually devoted 203 days precede.Hague was actually birthed and also increased in Kansas but has crisscrossed the nation for college as well as profession. He gained levels coming from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, and he participated in the USA Aviation service Test Captain Institution at Edwards Air Force Bottom in The Golden State. Hague's military occupation has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and also included a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Aviation service to the United State Area Interject 2020 after acting as the Space Force's director of examination and also evaluation at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand-new places, Hague vividly recollects creating his 1st trip to Johnson when he was actually speaking with to sign up with NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no tip what to anticipate, and it was actually a bit overwhelming. I recognized everyone was actually watching me and also judging me," he mentioned. "The good news is, although I had not been chosen after that, I received an additional opportunity a handful of years eventually. It is actually a quite enchanting place.".Hague completed his rocketeer training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st rocketeer class. He was the initial astronaut coming from that team to be appointed to a mission, which released in Oct 2018 but was actually miscarried not long after launch. His next spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he joined 3 of his schoolmates-- 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 a lot of minds at Johnson, however one that stands out is his experience operating onsite amid the 2013 authorities closure. "I am actually active-duty military so I still involved function," he discussed. "I remember being onsite as well as the center being entirely vacant. Managing to ride around an unfilled campus on the free-range bikes-- it was actually peaceful and also unique." It was likewise a preview of what lots of Johnson employees experienced during the course of the widespread as well as exactly how NASA keeps nonstop assistance for spaceflight procedures regardless of extenuating conditions.Hague now expects another experience to reduced The planet orbit. NASA and also SpaceX representatives currently plan to launch the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers is going to take off coming from Release Intricate 40 from the Cape Canaveral Room Troop Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Monster spacecraft.Hague and also Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will participate in NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and will definitely invest concerning 6 months carrying out clinical research in microgravity as well as finishing a variety of working activities just before returning home.Even more details concerning the goal and team may be discovered through complying with the Crew-9 weblog, @commercial_crew on X, or even business team on Facebook. You may additionally observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.