.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston carries a variety of one-of-a-kind responsibilities and advantages. Those include being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is actually currently prepping to release to the International Spaceport Station together with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine spinning goal under NASA's Business Crew System. This will be the 3rd launch and second purpose to the space station for Hague, that was decided on as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has actually invested 203 times precede.Hague was actually birthed as well as increased in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the country for university as well as career. He got degrees coming from the United States Sky Force School in Colorado and the Massachusetts Principle of Innovation in Cambridge, and he went to the USA Flying force Test Captain School at Edwards Flying Force Foundation in California. Hague's army occupation has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and also featured a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague moved from the Aviation service to the United State Room Force in 2020 after serving as the Room Pressure's supervisor of examination and also evaluation at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand-new spots, Hague vividly recollects creating his initial trip to Johnson when he was actually speaking with to participate in NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no tip what to count on, as well as it was a bit mind-boggling. I recognized every person was actually enjoying me and also judging me," he pointed out. "Fortunately, even though I wasn't picked then, I obtained another possibility a couple of years eventually. It is actually a rather enchanting spot.".Hague completed his astronaut training in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st rocketeer lesson. He was actually the first rocketeer coming from that group to be delegated to a purpose, which launched in October 2018 yet was actually miscarried not long after departure. His upcoming spaceflight happened in 2019, when he participated in three of his classmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually created many moments at Johnson, however one that sticks out is his adventure working onsite surrounded by the 2013 government cessation. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still came to work," he revealed. "I keep in mind being actually onsite and also the facility being actually totally vacant. Managing to use around an unfilled school on the free-range bikes-- it was calm and surreal." It was additionally a sneak peek of what many Johnson workers experienced in the course of the astronomical and how NASA preserves round-the-clock assistance for spaceflight operations irrespective of mitigating situations.Hague now looks ahead to yet another quest to low Earth orbit. NASA and also SpaceX representatives presently prepare to introduce the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew will lift off coming from Release Complicated 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Area Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as well as Dragon space capsule.Hague as well as Gorbonov will enter of the Expedition 72 team aboard the terminal. They will definitely sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and also will definitely spend about 6 months administering medical analysis in microgravity and also completing a range of operational activities before coming back home.Even more details regarding the goal and also team can be found through following the Crew-9 blog post, @commercial_crew on X, or even commercial team on Facebook. You may additionally comply with @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.