.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston accommodates an assortment of one-of-a-kind responsibilities and also opportunities. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.One of those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is actually right now preparing to introduce to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning goal under NASA's Business Staff Program. This are going to be actually the third launch and second purpose to the space station for Hague, that was actually picked as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and also has actually devoted 203 days precede.Hague was actually born and also raised in Kansas but has actually crisscrossed the country for university as well as profession. He earned degrees from the United States Sky Troop Institute in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Principle of Innovation in Cambridge, as well as he joined the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot College at Edwards Air Force Foundation in California. Hague's army career has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., as well as included a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Aviation service to the U.S. Space Interject 2020 after acting as the Area Power's director of test as well as assessment at the Pentagon.Familiar with brand new areas, Hague strongly recollects creating his very first excursion to Johnson when he was actually questioning to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no idea what to count on, and also it was actually a little bit frustrating. I knew everybody was actually enjoying me and also judging me," he said. "Luckily, even though I wasn't picked then, I got another opportunity a couple of years eventually. It's a quite wonderful place.".Hague accomplished his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st rocketeer training class. He was actually the very first rocketeer coming from that group to be assigned to a purpose, which released in October 2018 but was miscarried soon after takeoff. His upcoming spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he participated in three of his friends-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has actually made lots of minds at Johnson, yet one that attracts attention is his adventure operating onsite surrounded by the 2013 authorities shutdown. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still came to work," he clarified. "I don't forget being actually onsite as well as the center being entirely vacant. Having the capacity to use around an empty grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was peaceful as well as unique." It was additionally a sneak peek of what lots of Johnson staff members experienced in the course of the pandemic and also exactly how NASA sustains round-the-clock support for spaceflight procedures irrespective of extenuating instances.Hague right now looks ahead to one more adventure to low The planet track. NASA and also SpaceX representatives currently prepare to release the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff will take off from Release Intricate 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Area Force Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Dragon spacecraft.Hague and Gorbonov are going to enter of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the terminal. They are going to join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and will spend about six months performing clinical research study in microgravity and also finishing a range of working activities before coming back home.Even more details regarding the purpose as well as team could be found by following the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or even office workers on Facebook. You can also observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.