.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston accommodates a selection of special tasks and also benefits. Those feature being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is actually right now prepping to introduce to the International Spaceport Station along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th spinning goal under NASA's Commercial Crew System. This will be actually the 3rd launch and also second mission to the space station for Hague, that was actually selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has actually devoted 203 days in space.Hague was birthed and raised in Kansas but has crisscrossed the nation for university and also occupation. He got degrees coming from the USA Air Troop School in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, and he went to the USA Flying force Examination Captain College at Edwards Flying Force Bottom in The Golden State. Hague's armed forces job has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and featured a five-month release to Iraq. Hague moved from the Flying force to the United State Area Interject 2020 after working as the Room Pressure's director of examination as well as evaluation at the Government.Familiar with new locations, Hague strongly recollects creating his very first journey to Johnson when he was speaking with to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no tip what to count on, and it was actually a little bit frustrating. I recognized everybody was enjoying me as well as judging me," he said. "Luckily, although I had not been selected at that point, I acquired one more opportunity a couple of years later on. It's a rather magical place.".Hague completed his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st astronaut course. He was actually the initial rocketeer coming from that group to become delegated to a purpose, which launched in October 2018 but was actually aborted soon after takeoff. His following spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he participated in three of his classmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has actually created many minds at Johnson, however one that stands apart is his knowledge functioning onsite amid the 2013 federal government shutdown. "I'm active-duty military so I still involved function," he clarified. "I bear in mind being onsite and the center being actually entirely empty. Managing to use around a vacant university on the free-range bikes-- it was actually tranquil and also unique." It was actually also a sneak peek of what many Johnson workers experienced in the course of the global and exactly how NASA maintains continuous support for spaceflight procedures irrespective of extenuating instances.Hague now looks ahead to an additional quest to reduced Planet track. NASA and also SpaceX representatives currently plan to release the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will definitely ascend coming from Introduce Complicated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Space Troop Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft as well as Monster space probe.Hague and Gorbonov will enter of the Trip 72 crew aboard the terminal. They will certainly sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and will spend regarding six months administering scientific study in microgravity and also accomplishing a variety of functional activities just before returning home.Even more particulars about the purpose as well as workers could be located by observing the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or commercial crew on Facebook. You can easily likewise follow @astrohague on X and Instagram.