.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston holds an assortment of special duties as well as advantages. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is actually currently prepping to launch to the International Space Station in addition to Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational objective under NASA's Business Crew Program. This will be actually the 3rd launch and second mission to the space station for Hague, who was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has actually invested 203 days precede.Hague was actually born and also elevated in Kansas however has actually crisscrossed the country for university and also occupation. He earned levels from the United States Sky Troop Academy in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, as well as he attended the united state Air Force Examination Captain University at Edwards Air Force Bottom in The Golden State. Hague's military career has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and featured a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transferred from the Air Force to the United State Space Force in 2020 after functioning as the Area Force's supervisor of test and assessment at the Government.No stranger to brand new areas, Hague vividly remembers making his first trip to Johnson when he was actually speaking with to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no idea what to count on, and also it was actually a little bit difficult. I recognized every person was actually seeing me and also determining me," he mentioned. "The good news is, although I had not been decided on after that, I acquired one more opportunity a couple of years eventually. It is actually a rather wonderful location.".Hague completed his rocketeer training in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st astronaut lesson. He was actually the first astronaut coming from that group to be appointed to a mission, which introduced in Oct 2018 yet was miscarried quickly after takeoff. His following spaceflight developed in 2019, when he signed up with three of his classmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually brought in several minds at Johnson, however one that sticks out is his adventure operating onsite in the middle of the 2013 authorities closure. "I'm active-duty army so I still involved work," he explained. "I don't forget being onsite and also the facility being actually completely vacant. Having the capacity to use around a vacant grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was actually calm and also unique." It was likewise a preview of what a lot of Johnson employees experienced throughout the widespread as well as exactly how NASA preserves continuous assistance for spaceflight functions no matter mitigating scenarios.Hague right now expects another journey to low Earth orbit. NASA and also SpaceX authorities currently organize to release the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff is going to ascend coming from Release Intricate 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Area Troop Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Dragon space probe.Hague as well as Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Trip 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will definitely sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and are going to invest about six months performing scientific study in microgravity as well as finishing a series of working tasks just before coming back home.More particulars regarding the purpose and also workers could be found through adhering to the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or even commercial crew on Facebook. You may also comply with @astrohague on X and Instagram.