.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston carries a selection of special tasks as well as opportunities. Those include being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is actually now readying to release to the International Space Station together with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine spinning purpose under NASA's Business Team Program. This will be actually the third launch as well as second mission to the spaceport station for Hague, that was actually decided on as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has actually invested 203 days precede.Hague was born as well as increased in Kansas yet has crisscrossed the nation for college and also career. He earned levels from the United States Air Troop Institute in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, as well as he joined the U.S. Flying force Exam Pilot College at Edwards Aviation Service Foundation in The Golden State. Hague's armed forces occupation has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., as well as consisted of a five-month release to Iraq. Hague moved from the Aviation service to the USA Area Force in 2020 after acting as the Room Pressure's supervisor of test and evaluation at the Government.Familiar with new areas, Hague vividly recollects producing his initial journey to Johnson when he was interviewing to sign up with NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no concept what to anticipate, and also it was a little bit mind-boggling. I understood everyone was watching me as well as evaluating me," he stated. "Luckily, although I had not been decided on after that, I acquired another opportunity a few years later. It is actually a pretty wonderful location.".Hague completed his astronaut training in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st rocketeer training class. He was actually the first astronaut coming from that group to be assigned to an objective, which introduced in Oct 2018 however was aborted shortly after launch. His upcoming spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he joined three of his friends-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually brought in a lot of memories at Johnson, but one that attracts attention is his expertise functioning onsite amidst the 2013 federal government shutdown. "I am actually active-duty military so I still came to work," he revealed. "I remember being onsite and also the center being totally vacant. Having the capacity to use around an empty university on the free-range bikes-- it was actually relaxed as well as surreal." It was additionally an examine of what lots of Johnson employees experienced during the widespread and how NASA sustains continuous assistance for spaceflight procedures irrespective of extenuating situations.Hague right now expects one more quest to low Earth track. NASA and SpaceX officials currently organize to introduce the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will certainly ascend from Release Complicated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Area Troop Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule.Hague and also Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Trip 72 team aboard the terminal. They are going to join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and are going to spend concerning six months conducting scientific analysis in microgravity and also finishing a range of functional activities before coming back home.Even more particulars about the goal and staff may be found by complying with the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or even commercial team on Facebook. You can also observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.