.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston holds a selection of one-of-a-kind duties and also opportunities. Those consist of being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is right now preparing to release to the International Spaceport Station alongside Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth rotational goal under NASA's Industrial Crew Program. This will be actually the third launch and 2nd goal to the space station for Hague, that was actually chosen as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has spent 203 days precede.Hague was born and also elevated in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the country for college as well as career. He gained levels coming from the United States Air Troop School in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, and also he joined the USA Aviation service Test Pilot University at Edwards Flying Force Base in California. Hague's armed forces profession has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., as well as featured a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transmitted coming from the Air Force to the United State Space Force in 2020 after functioning as the Room Force's supervisor of test and also examination at the Pentagon.Familiar with brand-new places, Hague strongly recalls creating his 1st travel to Johnson when he was actually questioning to sign up with NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no concept what to count on, and it was actually a little mind-boggling. I understood everyone was actually seeing me and also evaluating me," he stated. "Luckily, despite the fact that I had not been selected after that, I obtained one more opportunity a few years eventually. It is actually a rather enchanting place.".Hague completed his astronaut training in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st rocketeer course. He was actually the 1st rocketeer coming from that team to be appointed to a purpose, which released in Oct 2018 but was aborted quickly after takeoff. His following spaceflight happened in 2019, when he joined three of his friends-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually brought in several moments at Johnson, but one that attracts attention is his expertise functioning onsite surrounded by the 2013 authorities shutdown. "I am actually active-duty army so I still involved work," he detailed. "I keep in mind being onsite as well as the center being entirely empty. Having the capacity to use around an empty school on the free-range bikes-- it was actually calm as well as surreal." It was actually additionally a sneak peek of what several Johnson workers experienced throughout the pandemic as well as just how NASA sustains day-and-night help for spaceflight operations despite mitigating scenarios.Hague currently expects yet another quest to low Planet orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX officials currently intend to introduce the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew will certainly take off from Launch Complicated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Room Force Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as well as Dragon space capsule.Hague and Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Exploration 72 team aboard the terminal. They will definitely sign up with NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and are going to invest regarding 6 months carrying out scientific analysis in microgravity as well as accomplishing a stable of functional activities prior to returning home.Even more details regarding the goal as well as staff could be discovered through complying with the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or industrial staff on Facebook. You can additionally follow @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.