.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston accommodates a variety of one-of-a-kind duties and also advantages. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is currently preparing to introduce to the International Spaceport Station along with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning goal under NASA's Office Staff System. This will certainly be actually the 3rd launch and also 2nd goal to the spaceport station for Hague, that was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has devoted 203 times in space.Hague was born and also elevated in Kansas but has crisscrossed the country for college and also profession. He got degrees from the United States Sky Troop Institute in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Modern Technology in Cambridge, as well as he went to the united state Air Force Examination Fly Institution at Edwards Air Force Bottom in The Golden State. Hague's military job has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and featured a five-month release to Iraq. Hague moved from the Flying force to the U.S. Space Interject 2020 after acting as the Space Pressure's director of exam and analysis at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand-new spots, Hague clearly remembers producing his very first trip to Johnson when he was questioning to participate in NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no idea what to count on, as well as it was a bit difficult. I recognized everyone was viewing me and determining me," he said. "Luckily, although I had not been picked after that, I acquired an additional opportunity a couple of years later. It's a rather magical area.".Hague completed his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st rocketeer class. He was the initial astronaut coming from that team to be designated to a purpose, which introduced in October 2018 yet was aborted shortly after takeoff. His following spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he signed up with three of his classmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has actually created several minds at Johnson, but one that attracts attention is his experience operating onsite amid the 2013 federal government closure. "I'm active-duty army so I still related to function," he detailed. "I always remember being actually onsite and also the center being fully unfilled. Managing to ride around a vacant university on the free-range bikes-- it was actually peaceful as well as unique." It was also an examine of what lots of Johnson employees experienced throughout the widespread as well as how NASA keeps continuous support for spaceflight procedures despite mitigating scenarios.Hague right now expects another experience to low Planet track. NASA as well as SpaceX representatives currently organize to launch the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers is going to take off from Release Complex 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Space Troop Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft as well as Dragon spacecraft.Hague as well as Gorbonov will become members of the Expedition 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, as well as are going to invest concerning 6 months conducting scientific research in microgravity as well as finishing a stable of functional tasks before returning home.Additional details about the goal and crew may be located by observing the Crew-9 blog post, @commercial_crew on X, or business team on Facebook. You can easily also follow @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.