.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston holds a variety of one-of-a-kind obligations and also advantages. Those include being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.One of those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is actually right now prepping to launch to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine rotational objective under NASA's Business Workers System. This are going to be actually the 3rd launch and 2nd objective to the space station for Hague, who was actually picked as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has spent 203 days precede.Hague was actually born and also elevated in Kansas however has crisscrossed the country for college as well as occupation. He made levels coming from the United States Sky Force Institute in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and he attended the U.S. Aviation service Test Captain College at Edwards Aviation Service Foundation in California. Hague's armed forces job has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and featured a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transmitted coming from the Flying force to the USA Space Force in 2020 after working as the Area Force's supervisor of test and also assessment at the Government.Familiar with new areas, Hague clearly remembers producing his 1st journey to Johnson when he was speaking with to join NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no tip what to anticipate, as well as it was actually a little frustrating. I knew everybody was enjoying me and also evaluating me," he mentioned. "Luckily, despite the fact that I had not been decided on then, I acquired yet another possibility a couple of years later. It is actually a fairly wonderful spot.".Hague finished his astronaut training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st astronaut training class. He was actually the very first rocketeer from that team to be designated to a purpose, which released in October 2018 but was miscarried soon after launch. His upcoming spaceflight happened in 2019, when he joined three of his classmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has made many memories at Johnson, however one that attracts attention is his knowledge functioning onsite amidst the 2013 federal government closure. "I am actually active-duty army so I still related to operate," he detailed. "I remember being actually onsite as well as the center being actually completely empty. Having the capacity to ride around a vacant grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was relaxed and also unique." It was additionally a sneak peek of what several Johnson employees experienced in the course of the astronomical and exactly how NASA maintains day-and-night help for spaceflight functions no matter mitigating conditions.Hague now expects another experience to reduced Planet track. NASA and SpaceX officials presently consider to introduce the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will certainly ascend from Introduce Sophisticated 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Force Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as well as Monster space probe.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to become members of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the station. They are going to join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, as well as will invest about six months performing medical study in microgravity as well as accomplishing a variety of operational activities before returning home.Additional particulars about the goal and also workers may be located through observing the Crew-9 weblog, @commercial_crew on X, or commercial crew on Facebook. You can easily additionally follow @astrohague on X and Instagram.