.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston holds a wide array of unique obligations and also privileges. Those include being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is right now preparing to introduce to the International Space Station alongside Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning objective under NASA's Office Staff Program. This will certainly be actually the 3rd launch as well as second purpose to the space station for Hague, that was actually picked as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and also has devoted 203 times in space.Hague was born as well as raised in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the nation for college and profession. He made degrees coming from the United States Sky Troop School in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Modern Technology in Cambridge, and also he went to the U.S. Flying force Examination Aviator School at Edwards Aviation Service Foundation in California. Hague's armed forces occupation has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and also featured a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transmitted coming from the Air Force to the U.S. Space Force in 2020 after functioning as the Space Power's director of test and also assessment at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand-new spots, Hague strongly recollects producing his 1st travel to Johnson when he was actually speaking with to sign up with NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no suggestion what to anticipate, as well as it was a bit frustrating. I knew everyone was actually seeing me as well as evaluating me," he said. "Fortunately, despite the fact that I had not been chosen after that, I acquired yet another odds a handful of years eventually. It's a fairly enchanting area.".Hague accomplished his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st astronaut course. He was the very first rocketeer coming from that group to become assigned to a purpose, which released in October 2018 but was aborted quickly after takeoff. His following spaceflight happened in 2019, when he joined 3 of his friends-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has actually made many moments at Johnson, but one that sticks out is his adventure working onsite surrounded by the 2013 authorities closure. "I am actually active-duty military so I still pertained to operate," he described. "I remember being actually onsite as well as the center being fully vacant. Being able to ride around an empty university on the free-range bikes-- it was serene and unique." It was likewise a preview of what several Johnson staff members experienced in the course of the widespread as well as how NASA maintains nonstop help for spaceflight operations no matter extenuating situations.Hague currently looks ahead to yet another quest to reduced Planet track. NASA as well as SpaceX authorities currently organize to launch the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff will certainly take off from Release Complex 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Troop Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule.Hague and also Gorbonov will become members of the Trip 72 team aboard the terminal. They will definitely join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and also will invest concerning six months conducting scientific investigation in microgravity as well as accomplishing a variety of working activities prior to returning home.More information about the mission as well as workers could be located by complying with the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or even business crew on Facebook. You can easily additionally comply with @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.