.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston accommodates a wide array of distinct responsibilities and benefits. Those include being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.One of those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is right now prepping to launch to the International Spaceport Station alongside Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational goal under NASA's Business Team Course. This are going to be the third launch and 2nd mission to the spaceport station for Hague, that was actually decided on as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has devoted 203 days precede.Hague was actually born and raised in Kansas however has crisscrossed the country for university as well as career. He got degrees coming from the USA Air Troop Institute in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Modern Technology in Cambridge, and also he joined the USA Aviation service Exam Captain School at Edwards Flying Force Base in California. Hague's military occupation has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and included a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transmitted coming from the Air Force to the United State Space Interject 2020 after working as the Space Pressure's director of exam and examination at the Pentagon.Familiar with brand-new places, Hague clearly remembers producing his first trip to Johnson when he was interviewing to sign up with NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no suggestion what to count on, and also it was actually a little bit mind-boggling. I understood every person was viewing me and evaluating me," he pointed out. "Luckily, although I had not been picked then, I obtained another odds a couple of years eventually. It is actually a rather magical place.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st rocketeer lesson. He was actually the 1st astronaut from that team to become delegated to a mission, which launched in Oct 2018 yet was actually miscarried soon after launch. His following spaceflight developed in 2019, when he signed up with 3 of his friends-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has actually made a lot of moments at Johnson, however one that attracts attention is his adventure working onsite amid the 2013 federal government shutdown. "I am actually active-duty military so I still concerned work," he detailed. "I remember being actually onsite and the center being actually entirely vacant. Managing to ride around an unfilled school on the free-range bikes-- it was actually quiet as well as unique." It was actually likewise a preview of what many Johnson workers experienced in the course of the pandemic as well as how NASA keeps day-and-night assistance for spaceflight functions regardless of extenuating situations.Hague now expects an additional quest to reduced Earth orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX officials currently plan to release the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew will ascend from Release Complex 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Force Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Monster spacecraft.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Trip 72 team aboard the terminal. They will certainly join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and also will invest concerning 6 months performing scientific research in microgravity and also accomplishing a stable of working activities before returning home.Even more information about the mission as well as crew can be located by following the Crew-9 weblog, @commercial_crew on X, or even business staff on Facebook. You can additionally comply with @astrohague on X and also Instagram.