.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston contains an assortment of one-of-a-kind tasks and also opportunities. Those consist of being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is right now prepping to introduce to the International Space Station together with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning objective under NASA's Industrial Staff System. This are going to be the 3rd launch and also 2nd purpose to the space station for Hague, that was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and also has spent 203 times in space.Hague was actually born and increased in Kansas however has actually crisscrossed the country for university as well as profession. He made levels coming from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Technology in Cambridge, and he attended the USA Flying force Test Fly College at Edwards Air Force Bottom in California. Hague's army job has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and also included a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transmitted coming from the Flying force to the USA Room Force in 2020 after functioning as the Space Pressure's director of exam and also evaluation at the Government.No stranger to new locations, Hague strongly remembers making his very first vacation to Johnson when he was actually interviewing to sign up with NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no idea what to expect, and it was a bit difficult. I recognized everyone was seeing me and also judging me," he mentioned. "Fortunately, despite the fact that I wasn't picked after that, I got an additional opportunity a couple of years later on. It's a quite enchanting area.".Hague completed his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st astronaut class. He was actually the 1st rocketeer from that team to be delegated to a purpose, which launched in Oct 2018 but was aborted quickly after launch. His next spaceflight happened 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 as well as 60.Hague has brought in a lot of minds at Johnson, however one that stands out is his expertise working onsite in the middle of the 2013 authorities closure. "I'm active-duty army so I still came to function," he detailed. "I always remember being actually onsite and the center being fully vacant. Being able to use around a vacant campus on the free-range bikes-- it was quiet and also surreal." It was actually also an examine of what numerous Johnson staff members experienced throughout the astronomical and just how NASA sustains continuous assistance for spaceflight operations irrespective of extenuating circumstances.Hague right now looks ahead to another journey to reduced The planet track. NASA and SpaceX officials presently intend to introduce the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers is going to lift off from Introduce Intricate 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Area Force Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Dragon spacecraft.Hague and Gorbonov are going to become members of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the terminal. They are going to sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and also are going to devote about six months performing medical research study in microgravity and also finishing a stable of working activities before coming back home.Additional details about the objective as well as workers may be discovered by observing the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or even business team on Facebook. You may additionally adhere to @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.