.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston contains an assortment of unique accountabilities and opportunities. Those include being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is actually now preparing to introduce to the International Space Station in addition to Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th spinning mission under NASA's Commercial Crew Course. This are going to be the third launch and second purpose to the spaceport station for Hague, that was selected as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has spent 203 times in space.Hague was actually born and increased in Kansas but has crisscrossed the country for college and also profession. He earned levels coming from the USA Air Force School in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, as well as he joined the united state Flying force Test Pilot Institution at Edwards Flying Force Base in California. Hague's army career 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 Flying force to the United State Space Force in 2020 after working as the Area Power's director of test as well as evaluation at the Pentagon.Familiar with brand new places, Hague clearly recollects producing his very first trip to Johnson when he was actually speaking with to sign up with NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no suggestion what to count on, and also it was a bit mind-boggling. I understood every person was actually viewing me as well as judging me," he claimed. "Fortunately, despite the fact that I wasn't picked at that point, I received yet another odds a couple of years eventually. It's a fairly magical location.".Hague completed his astronaut training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st rocketeer course. He was the 1st astronaut coming from that group to become designated to an objective, which launched in Oct 2018 but was aborted shortly after departure. His next spaceflight took place in 2019, when he participated in three of his classmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has brought in several memories at Johnson, yet one that stands apart is his experience working onsite in the middle of the 2013 federal government cessation. "I'm active-duty military so I still related to work," he explained. "I keep in mind being onsite as well as the center being entirely vacant. Being able to ride around an unfilled campus on the free-range bikes-- it was tranquil and unique." It was actually additionally a sneak peek of what numerous Johnson staff members experienced in the course of the astronomical and how NASA preserves nonstop assistance for spaceflight operations irrespective of extenuating scenarios.Hague currently looks ahead to yet another adventure to reduced Planet orbit. NASA and SpaceX officials currently prepare to introduce the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew will definitely ascend coming from Introduce Sophisticated 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Area Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Monster spacecraft.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to enter of the Trip 72 workers aboard the terminal. They are going to join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, as well as will certainly devote concerning 6 months administering clinical analysis in microgravity as well as finishing a stable of functional tasks prior to coming back home.More information regarding the objective and staff can be located by adhering to the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or business team on Facebook. You can also adhere to @astrohague on X and also Instagram.