.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston carries a range of special duties and also advantages. Those include being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is currently readying to introduce to the International Spaceport Station together with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational objective under NASA's Office Crew System. This will be actually the third launch as well as 2nd mission to the space station for Hague, who was chosen as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and also has actually spent 203 times precede.Hague was birthed and increased in Kansas yet has crisscrossed the nation for college and also occupation. He gained degrees coming from the United States Sky Force Academy in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Principle of Modern Technology in Cambridge, and also he participated in the U.S. Air Force Exam Aviator University at Edwards Flying Force Base in California. Hague's army career has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and also included a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transferred from the Flying force to the U.S. Room Force in 2020 after serving as the Space Power's supervisor of examination and evaluation at the Pentagon.Familiar with new spots, Hague strongly recalls creating his 1st journey to Johnson when he was interviewing to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no concept what to anticipate, as well as it was a bit frustrating. I knew every person was seeing me as well as determining me," he pointed out. "Thankfully, although I had not been picked after that, I got an additional odds a few years later on. It's a quite magical area.".Hague completed his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st astronaut course. He was actually the very first rocketeer coming from that group to become appointed to an objective, which introduced in October 2018 but was miscarried shortly after launch. His next spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he joined three of his classmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has brought in several moments at Johnson, yet one that attracts attention is his experience functioning onsite amid the 2013 government closure. "I'm active-duty army so I still involved operate," he discussed. "I remember being actually onsite and the facility being fully empty. Having the capacity to use around an unfilled campus on the free-range bikes-- it was serene as well as unique." It was actually additionally an examine of what several Johnson workers experienced during the course of the astronomical and how NASA keeps day-and-night assistance for spaceflight procedures regardless of extenuating situations.Hague now expects yet another experience to reduced The planet orbit. NASA and SpaceX representatives currently intend to introduce the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will certainly ascend from Release Intricate 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Monster space capsule.Hague and Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Expedition 72 team aboard the terminal. They will join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, as well as are going to spend concerning six months carrying out scientific research study in microgravity and finishing a range of operational activities before returning home.Even more information about the goal and team could be discovered through following the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or even office team on Facebook. You can easily additionally observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.