.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston accommodates a variety of one-of-a-kind obligations as well as opportunities. Those feature being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.One of those astronauts-- Scar Hague-- is actually currently prepping to release to the International Space Station together with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th spinning mission under NASA's Industrial Workers System. This will definitely be actually the third launch as well as second purpose to the space station for Hague, who was actually decided on as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has spent 203 times precede.Hague was actually birthed as well as increased in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the nation for university and also job. He gained levels coming from the USA Sky Force School in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Technology in Cambridge, as well as he participated in the U.S. Aviation service Examination Captain University at Edwards Air Force Foundation in California. Hague's army job has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and included a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transferred from the Flying force to the U.S. Space Force in 2020 after acting as the Space Pressure's director of examination and also assessment at the Pentagon.Familiar with new locations, Hague vividly remembers making his first excursion to Johnson when he was actually questioning to join NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no tip what to anticipate, as well as it was a little bit frustrating. I knew everyone was actually seeing me and also determining me," he pointed out. "Luckily, despite the fact that I had not been selected then, I obtained an additional odds a handful of years later on. It's a fairly magical spot.".Hague finished his astronaut training in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st rocketeer class. He was actually the initial astronaut coming from that team to become assigned to a purpose, which introduced in Oct 2018 yet was aborted soon after departure. His next spaceflight developed in 2019, when he signed up with three of his schoolmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has actually brought in a lot of memories at Johnson, however one that attracts attention is his experience working onsite amid the 2013 federal government cessation. "I'm active-duty military so I still pertained to work," he revealed. "I always remember being onsite and the facility being fully vacant. Managing to use around an empty grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was actually calm and also unique." It was actually additionally a preview of what several Johnson staff members experienced in the course of the global and exactly how NASA preserves continuous help for spaceflight operations despite extenuating conditions.Hague right now looks ahead to another trip to low The planet orbit. NASA and SpaceX authorities currently plan to launch the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers is going to lift off coming from Introduce Complex 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Force Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft as well as Dragon space capsule.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to become members of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will certainly join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and also will certainly spend regarding 6 months conducting scientific research study in microgravity as well as finishing a range of operational tasks before coming back home.Additional details about the purpose and also team could be located through adhering to the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or even commercial team on Facebook. You can easily additionally follow @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.