.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston carries a range of special responsibilities and privileges. Those include being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.One of those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is now readying to launch to the International Spaceport Station along with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine spinning purpose under NASA's Office Crew Program. This are going to be the 3rd launch and 2nd purpose to the spaceport station for Hague, that was actually selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and also has devoted 203 times precede.Hague was born and raised in Kansas yet has crisscrossed the country for college as well as occupation. He made degrees coming from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Modern Technology in Cambridge, and he went to the U.S. Aviation service Exam Fly Institution at Edwards Aviation Service Foundation in California. Hague's armed forces job has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., as well as consisted of a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Air Force to the United State Space Force in 2020 after serving as the Space Force's supervisor of exam as well as examination at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand new spots, Hague strongly remembers producing his first vacation to Johnson when he was questioning to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no tip what to expect, and it was actually a little difficult. I understood everyone was enjoying me and also evaluating me," he pointed out. "The good news is, even though I wasn't picked then, I got one more possibility a handful of years eventually. It is actually a rather enchanting location.".Hague completed his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st astronaut course. He was actually the 1st rocketeer coming from that group to be designated to a mission, which released in Oct 2018 yet was actually miscarried shortly after launch. His following spaceflight happened in 2019, when he joined 3 of his friends-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has made several memories at Johnson, yet one that stands apart is his adventure functioning onsite in the middle of the 2013 authorities shutdown. "I am actually active-duty military so I still pertained to operate," he detailed. "I bear in mind being onsite and the facility being actually entirely vacant. Being able to ride around a vacant grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was quiet and surreal." It was actually additionally a sneak peek of what a lot of Johnson staff members experienced during the astronomical and also how NASA keeps day-and-night help for spaceflight functions irrespective of mitigating circumstances.Hague currently looks ahead to an additional experience to reduced Earth track. NASA and SpaceX authorities currently prepare to introduce the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will certainly lift off from Introduce Sophisticated 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Space Troop Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Monster spacecraft.Hague and Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the station. They are going to join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and will certainly invest about six months performing medical investigation in microgravity as well as accomplishing a series of functional activities before returning home.Additional information regarding the purpose as well as workers can be located by adhering to the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or even commercial workers on Facebook. You may also follow @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.