.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston carries a range of special accountabilities and also privileges. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Among those astronauts-- Scar Hague-- is currently preparing to introduce to the International Space Station in addition to Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational goal under NASA's Business Team Program. This will be the third launch and second purpose to the spaceport station for Hague, that was actually chosen as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has actually invested 203 days in space.Hague was actually born and also increased in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the nation for college and also occupation. He got levels from the USA Sky Force Institute in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Modern Technology in Cambridge, and he joined the united state Flying force Examination Aviator University at Edwards Aviation Service Foundation in The Golden State. Hague's military job has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., as well as included a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Air Force to the U.S. Area Force in 2020 after serving as the Area Power's director of exam and examination at the Pentagon.Familiar with brand new locations, Hague strongly remembers producing his very first travel to Johnson when he was actually speaking with to sign up with NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no idea what to count on, and it was actually a bit frustrating. I understood every person was seeing me and judging me," he stated. "The good news is, although I had not been decided on at that point, I got one more chance a few years later on. It's a rather enchanting place.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st astronaut lesson. He was the 1st rocketeer from that group to be appointed to a purpose, which launched in October 2018 yet was actually aborted not long after launch. His following spaceflight took place in 2019, when he participated in three of his classmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually made many memories at Johnson, however one that sticks out is his adventure working onsite among the 2013 government cessation. "I am actually active-duty army so I still concerned function," he explained. "I keep in mind being onsite and also the facility being actually totally unfilled. Managing to ride around an empty campus on the free-range bikes-- it was actually relaxed and also unique." It was actually also a preview of what numerous Johnson workers experienced during the course of the widespread and exactly how NASA maintains round-the-clock help for spaceflight functions irrespective of mitigating scenarios.Hague now expects another quest to low Earth track. NASA and SpaceX representatives currently prepare to introduce the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew will definitely lift off coming from Introduce Intricate 40 from the Cape Canaveral Area Troop Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Dragon spacecraft.Hague and Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Expedition 72 team aboard the terminal. They are going to join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and will invest regarding six months administering scientific analysis in microgravity and also completing a stable of working activities before coming back home.Additional information regarding the purpose as well as staff can be found by following the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or business staff on Facebook. You can also observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.