.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston contains a selection of unique responsibilities and opportunities. Those include being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is actually now prepping to launch to the International Spaceport Station along with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth rotational mission under NASA's Business Workers Program. This will certainly be the third launch and 2nd objective to the space station for Hague, who was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has invested 203 times in space.Hague was birthed and also increased in Kansas yet has crisscrossed the country for college as well as job. He gained levels from the United States Sky Troop Institute in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, as well as he joined the united state Air Force Test Aviator Institution at Edwards Aviation Service Base in California. Hague's military occupation has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and also featured a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Air Force to the U.S. Room Force in 2020 after functioning as the Area Pressure's supervisor of exam and evaluation at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand-new places, Hague clearly recollects making his initial journey to Johnson when he was actually speaking with to sign up with NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no suggestion what to count on, as well as it was a bit difficult. I knew every person was seeing me and also judging me," he said. "The good news is, even though I wasn't chosen after that, I obtained yet another odds a couple of years later on. It's a fairly enchanting location.".Hague finished his astronaut training in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st rocketeer lesson. He was the initial astronaut coming from that team to be assigned to a goal, which launched in Oct 2018 however was aborted quickly after takeoff. His upcoming spaceflight took place in 2019, when he joined 3 of his friends-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually brought in many memories at Johnson, however one that stands out is his experience working onsite surrounded by the 2013 government cessation. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still concerned function," he revealed. "I always remember being actually onsite and the facility being actually completely vacant. Having the capacity to use around an empty school on the free-range bikes-- it was tranquil as well as unique." It was actually likewise a preview of what several Johnson employees experienced during the course of the astronomical and just how NASA preserves nonstop help for spaceflight procedures no matter mitigating circumstances.Hague now looks ahead to an additional quest to reduced Planet track. NASA and also SpaceX authorities currently consider to release the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will certainly take off from Introduce Intricate 40 from the Cape Canaveral Area Troop Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Dragon space probe.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to become members of the Trip 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will definitely join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and are going to invest regarding 6 months carrying out medical investigation in microgravity as well as accomplishing a series of operational tasks prior to returning home.Additional information about the mission as well as staff can be located through observing the Crew-9 blog post, @commercial_crew on X, or industrial crew on Facebook. You can likewise follow @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.