.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston accommodates a range of unique responsibilities as well as privileges. Those feature being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is actually right now preparing to release to the International Spaceport Station together with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth rotational mission under NASA's Office Team Program. This will certainly be actually the third launch and also second mission to the space station for Hague, that was picked as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has actually devoted 203 days in space.Hague was actually born and raised in Kansas but has crisscrossed the nation for college and also job. He made degrees coming from the USA Sky Troop School in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Technology in Cambridge, as well as he went to the USA Air Force Examination Pilot Institution at Edwards Air Force Base in The Golden State. Hague's armed forces profession has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., as well as consisted of a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Air Force to the United State Room Interject 2020 after acting as the Space Power's supervisor of test as well as examination at the Government.Familiar with brand-new areas, Hague clearly recalls making his 1st travel to Johnson when he was actually speaking with to sign up with NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no tip what to count on, and it was actually a bit overwhelming. I knew everyone was actually enjoying me and evaluating me," he stated. "The good news is, although I wasn't decided on at that point, I obtained another opportunity a couple of years later on. It is actually a rather magical place.".Hague finished his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st rocketeer training class. He was actually the initial astronaut from that team to become assigned to a mission, which introduced in Oct 2018 yet was miscarried quickly after takeoff. His upcoming spaceflight took place in 2019, when he signed up with 3 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 made several moments at Johnson, however one that stands apart is his adventure working onsite amidst the 2013 federal government shutdown. "I am actually active-duty military so I still came to operate," he clarified. "I always remember being actually onsite and also the center being entirely vacant. Being able to use around an empty university on the free-range bikes-- it was actually serene and surreal." It was actually also a sneak peek of what several Johnson employees experienced during the course of the pandemic and just how NASA keeps round-the-clock assistance for spaceflight operations regardless of mitigating situations.Hague now looks ahead to yet another experience to low The planet track. NASA and also SpaceX officials currently intend to introduce the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff will take off coming from Release Complicated 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as well as Dragon space probe.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to enter of the Trip 72 staff aboard the terminal. They are going to join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and will definitely spend regarding 6 months conducting clinical research study in microgravity as well as completing a series of operational tasks just before coming back home.More details regarding the mission as well as staff could be found through complying with the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or office crew on Facebook. You can likewise observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.