.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston contains an assortment of special duties and also advantages. Those feature being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.One of those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is currently prepping to launch to the International Spaceport Station together with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational mission under NASA's Industrial Staff System. This will definitely be the 3rd launch as well as second purpose to the space station for Hague, who was chosen as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has actually devoted 203 times in space.Hague was birthed and also raised in Kansas but has crisscrossed the country for college and also job. He gained levels from the United States Air Troop Institute in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Technology in Cambridge, and also he went to the U.S. Aviation service Examination Aviator College at Edwards Air Force Bottom in California. Hague's army profession has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and included a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Air Force to the USA Space Interject 2020 after acting as the Space Force's supervisor of exam as well as assessment at the Government.Familiar with brand new locations, Hague vividly recollects making his 1st travel to Johnson when he was speaking with to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no tip what to expect, and also it was a little bit mind-boggling. I understood everybody was actually enjoying me and evaluating me," he claimed. "The good news is, although I wasn't chosen after that, I obtained another possibility a couple of years later. It is actually a quite magical spot.".Hague completed his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st rocketeer lesson. He was the 1st rocketeer from that team to be designated to a goal, which released in Oct 2018 yet was miscarried shortly after departure. His next spaceflight developed in 2019, when he signed up with 3 of his schoolmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has actually created a lot of minds at Johnson, but one that attracts attention is his adventure operating onsite amid the 2013 federal government shutdown. "I am actually active-duty armed forces so I still related to function," he detailed. "I don't forget being onsite and the facility being totally vacant. Having the capacity to use around an unfilled campus on the free-range bikes-- it was actually serene and also unique." It was additionally a preview of what many Johnson staff members experienced during the widespread and just how NASA keeps nonstop help for spaceflight functions irrespective of mitigating situations.Hague right now expects an additional trip to low The planet track. NASA and SpaceX representatives presently consider to release the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff will definitely lift off coming from Introduce Complicated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Area Force Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft as well as Monster spacecraft.Hague and Gorbonov will enter of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the terminal. They are going to sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and also are going to devote about 6 months administering clinical research study in microgravity and also accomplishing a range of working activities before returning home.Additional particulars about the mission and also staff can be found through observing the Crew-9 blog post, @commercial_crew on X, or business team on Facebook. You can also adhere to @astrohague on X and also Instagram.