.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston carries a selection of unique accountabilities and also advantages. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is right now preparing to introduce to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth rotational purpose under NASA's Commercial Staff Program. This will be the 3rd launch and also second mission to the space station for Hague, that was actually picked as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and also has devoted 203 times precede.Hague was actually born as well as increased in Kansas but has actually crisscrossed the nation for college and also job. He made levels from the USA Air Force Academy in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, and also he joined the USA Air Force Test Aviator University at Edwards Aviation Service Foundation in California. Hague's armed forces career has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and included a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Flying force to the U.S. Area Interject 2020 after serving as the Area Force's director of exam and analysis at the Pentagon.Familiar with new places, Hague strongly remembers making his first vacation to Johnson when he was speaking with to sign up with NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no idea what to expect, and it was actually a bit mind-boggling. I recognized every person was actually enjoying me and judging me," he pointed out. "Thankfully, although I had not been selected at that point, I acquired one more opportunity a couple of years later on. It is actually a pretty magical spot.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st astronaut lesson. He was the initial astronaut coming from that group to be delegated to a goal, which introduced in Oct 2018 but was actually aborted quickly after takeoff. His next spaceflight took place in 2019, when he participated in three of his friends-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has made several minds at Johnson, yet one that sticks out is his expertise operating onsite in the middle of the 2013 government shutdown. "I am actually active-duty military so I still came to function," he described. "I bear in mind being onsite and also the facility being fully unfilled. Managing to ride around a vacant grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was actually tranquil as well as unique." It was actually likewise an examine of what many Johnson employees experienced during the astronomical and also exactly how NASA sustains round-the-clock support for spaceflight functions irrespective of extenuating conditions.Hague currently looks ahead to an additional experience to reduced The planet orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX representatives currently consider to launch the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will lift off coming from Launch Complex 40 from the Cape Canaveral Area Force Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space probe.Hague as well as Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Trip 72 team aboard the station. They will definitely sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and will definitely spend about six months administering clinical study in microgravity and completing a variety of working activities prior to returning home.More details about the objective as well as team can be found by following the Crew-9 weblog, @commercial_crew on X, or even industrial staff on Facebook. You can likewise comply with @astrohague on X and also Instagram.