.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston holds an assortment of distinct responsibilities as well as privileges. Those consist of being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those astronauts-- Scar Hague-- is right now prepping to introduce to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational goal under NASA's Industrial Crew Course. This will definitely be the third launch and 2nd mission to the space station for Hague, who was decided on as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and also has spent 203 times precede.Hague was actually birthed and also elevated in Kansas yet has crisscrossed the nation for university and job. He got degrees coming from the USA Air Force Institute in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, and he went to the united state Flying force Exam Captain College at Edwards Aviation Service Base in The Golden State. Hague's army job has 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 transmitted from the Air Force to the United State Space Interject 2020 after acting as the Space Power's director of examination as well as analysis at the Pentagon.No stranger to new spots, Hague clearly recollects producing his first excursion to Johnson when he was actually interviewing to sign up with NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no suggestion what to count on, as well as it was a bit frustrating. I knew every person was actually seeing me as well as determining me," he stated. "Thankfully, even though I had not been chosen at that point, I received another odds a few years later. It's a fairly magical location.".Hague completed his rocketeer training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st rocketeer course. He was the initial rocketeer coming from that team to become delegated to a mission, which launched in October 2018 but was actually aborted shortly after takeoff. His upcoming spaceflight took place in 2019, when he joined 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 lots of moments at Johnson, yet one that sticks out is his expertise operating onsite among the 2013 government cessation. "I am actually active-duty army so I still involved function," he detailed. "I always remember being actually onsite as well as the facility being actually fully empty. Having the capacity to ride around an empty campus on the free-range bikes-- it was actually relaxed and unique." It was also a sneak peek of what several Johnson employees experienced during the pandemic and also how NASA keeps round-the-clock support for spaceflight functions regardless of extenuating conditions.Hague currently looks ahead to yet another journey to low Earth orbit. NASA and SpaceX representatives presently intend to launch the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will ascend from Launch Complicated 40 from the Cape Canaveral Room Troop Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Monster space capsule.Hague and also Gorbonov will become members of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the station. They will certainly sign up with NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, as well as will certainly invest concerning six months performing scientific investigation in microgravity as well as finishing a series of working activities prior to returning home.Even more information regarding the mission and team may be discovered through complying with the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or even industrial crew on Facebook. You can also adhere to @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.