.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston carries a range of distinct accountabilities and advantages. Those include being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is now prepping to launch to the International Spaceport Station along with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine rotational purpose under NASA's Business Team Plan. This will be the 3rd launch as well as 2nd mission to the space station for Hague, who was actually chosen as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has invested 203 days precede.Hague was actually birthed and also raised in Kansas however has crisscrossed the nation for university as well as job. He earned levels from the USA Air Troop School in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Principle of Technology in Cambridge, and he went to the united state Flying force Test Captain University at Edwards Flying Force Bottom in California. Hague's army career has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., as well as included a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Flying force to the United State Room Interject 2020 after acting as the Area Pressure's director of exam and also examination at the Government.No stranger to brand-new spots, Hague clearly recollects producing his 1st excursion to Johnson when he was interviewing to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no suggestion what to anticipate, and also it was actually a bit overwhelming. I recognized everybody was actually viewing me and determining me," he claimed. "Luckily, despite the fact that I wasn't chosen at that point, I obtained yet another possibility a couple of years later on. It's a fairly magical spot.".Hague completed his astronaut training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st astronaut class. He was actually the first rocketeer from that group to be designated to an objective, which launched in October 2018 yet was aborted shortly after launch. His upcoming spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he participated in three of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually created a lot of minds at Johnson, however one that attracts attention is his experience working onsite among the 2013 federal government closure. "I am actually active-duty army so I still involved function," he discussed. "I don't forget being onsite and the facility being entirely empty. Having the capacity to ride around an unfilled grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was serene as well as surreal." It was additionally an examine of what several Johnson workers experienced during the pandemic and also just how NASA maintains day-and-night assistance for spaceflight procedures despite extenuating instances.Hague now expects an additional trip to low The planet orbit. NASA and SpaceX representatives currently organize to introduce the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will certainly take off coming from Release Sophisticated 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Troop Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Dragon space probe.Hague and also Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the station. They will sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, as well as will spend about six months administering clinical study in microgravity and finishing a range of functional tasks before coming back home.Even more information concerning the goal as well as workers could be found by adhering to the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or commercial workers on Facebook. You can easily likewise comply with @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.