.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston accommodates an assortment of special duties and also advantages. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.One of those astronauts-- Scar Hague-- is currently readying to release to the International Spaceport Station alongside Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning objective under NASA's Industrial Workers Plan. This will definitely be the 3rd launch as well as second objective to the space station for Hague, who was picked as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and also has actually spent 203 times precede.Hague was born and also elevated in Kansas however has crisscrossed the country for college and also job. He gained degrees coming from the United States Sky Force School in Colorado and the Massachusetts Principle of Innovation in Cambridge, and also he attended the united state Flying force Exam Captain School at Edwards Aviation Service Foundation in The Golden State. Hague's army profession has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and featured a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Air Force to the USA Space Force in 2020 after serving as the Area Force's supervisor of examination as well as examination at the Pentagon.No stranger to new locations, Hague vividly recollects creating his 1st excursion to Johnson when he was interviewing to join NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no suggestion what to count on, as well as it was actually a little frustrating. I understood everyone was actually enjoying me and evaluating me," he claimed. "Luckily, even though I wasn't selected then, I received an additional possibility a couple of years eventually. It is actually a fairly magical location.".Hague completed his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st astronaut course. He was the first astronaut from that group to become delegated to a purpose, which introduced in October 2018 however was actually miscarried not long after departure. His following spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he joined three of his classmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has brought in numerous minds at Johnson, but one that stands out is his knowledge functioning onsite among the 2013 authorities shutdown. "I am actually active-duty armed forces so I still involved function," he described. "I don't forget being onsite as well as the center being fully empty. Having the capacity to ride around an empty school on the free-range bikes-- it was peaceful and also unique." It was actually also a preview of what a lot of Johnson employees experienced during the course of the global as well as how NASA maintains continuous help for spaceflight procedures despite mitigating conditions.Hague now looks ahead to an additional journey to reduced Planet orbit. NASA and SpaceX officials presently plan to introduce the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will lift off coming from Release Complicated 40 from the Cape Canaveral Area Force Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Monster space capsule.Hague and also Gorbonov will become members of the Trip 72 crew aboard the terminal. They are going to join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, as well as will certainly devote concerning 6 months carrying out medical research in microgravity and also finishing a stable of functional activities before coming back home.More details about the objective as well as team may be found through complying with the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or office workers on Facebook. You may also comply with @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.