.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston accommodates a variety of special accountabilities as well as advantages. Those consist of being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.One of those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is now prepping to launch to the International Space Station together with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth rotational mission under NASA's Industrial Workers Program. This will certainly be actually the 3rd launch as well as second purpose to the space station for Hague, that was actually decided on as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has actually spent 203 days precede.Hague was birthed and raised in Kansas but has crisscrossed the nation for university and also job. He made levels from the USA Air Force Academy in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Modern Technology in Cambridge, as well as he went to the united state Aviation service Examination Pilot University at Edwards Aviation Service Bottom in California. Hague's armed forces job has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., as well as featured a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague moved coming from the Aviation service to the United State Room Force in 2020 after functioning as the Space Force's director of test as well as analysis at the Pentagon.No stranger to new places, Hague strongly remembers making his 1st travel to Johnson when he was actually questioning to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no concept what to anticipate, as well as it was actually a little mind-boggling. I knew everybody was actually enjoying me and evaluating me," he pointed out. "Luckily, although I wasn't picked after that, I received yet another odds a handful of years later on. It is actually a pretty wonderful location.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st astronaut class. He was the initial rocketeer from that group to be designated to an objective, which launched in October 2018 but was actually aborted soon after launch. His next spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he joined three of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has actually made a lot of memories at Johnson, but one that sticks out is his adventure functioning onsite amidst the 2013 authorities shutdown. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still pertained to operate," he discussed. "I keep in mind being onsite as well as the center being totally unfilled. Having the capacity to use around a vacant campus on the free-range bikes-- it was tranquil as well as unique." It was actually also an examine of what numerous Johnson staff members experienced during the course of the astronomical and how NASA maintains round-the-clock support for spaceflight functions irrespective of extenuating situations.Hague currently expects an additional experience to reduced The planet track. NASA and SpaceX officials currently consider to introduce the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew will certainly lift off from Launch Complex 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Room Troop Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Monster space probe.Hague and also Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the terminal. They are going to join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and will certainly invest about six months performing clinical analysis in microgravity as well as finishing a series of operational tasks prior to returning home.More information regarding the objective as well as crew may be found by following the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or industrial staff on Facebook. You may also follow @astrohague on X and Instagram.