.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston contains an assortment of unique duties and advantages. Those feature being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those astronauts-- Nick Hague-- is right now preparing to launch to the International Space Station in addition to Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning objective under NASA's Business Team Plan. This will definitely be the 3rd launch as well as 2nd goal to the space station for Hague, who was decided on as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has invested 203 days in space.Hague was actually born and also increased in Kansas but has crisscrossed the nation for university and job. He got degrees coming from the United States Air Troop School in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and also he participated in the USA Flying force Test Aviator School at Edwards Aviation Service Base in The Golden State. Hague's military occupation has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and also included a five-month release to Iraq. Hague moved from the Air Force to the U.S. Area Force in 2020 after working as the Area Power's director of exam as well as examination at the Government.No stranger to new places, Hague strongly recollects producing his 1st journey to Johnson when he was speaking with to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no suggestion what to count on, as well as it was a little bit difficult. I recognized every person was actually enjoying me as well as judging me," he said. "The good news is, despite the fact that I wasn't selected then, I received one more odds a couple of years later. It is actually a fairly wonderful place.".Hague finished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st astronaut training class. He was actually the 1st astronaut coming from that team to be appointed to a goal, which introduced in October 2018 but was aborted soon after launch. His upcoming spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he participated in three of his schoolmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has created lots of moments at Johnson, but one that sticks out is his expertise operating onsite amid the 2013 government shutdown. "I am actually active-duty military so I still related to work," he revealed. "I always remember being actually onsite and the facility being actually totally empty. Being able to ride around an empty university on the free-range bikes-- it was actually quiet as well as unique." It was likewise a sneak peek of what many Johnson staff members experienced during the pandemic and exactly how NASA keeps nonstop help for spaceflight operations no matter extenuating scenarios.Hague right now looks ahead to yet another quest to reduced The planet orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX representatives currently prepare to release the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will certainly ascend from Release Sophisticated 40 from the Cape Canaveral Area Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Monster space capsule.Hague and Gorbonov are going to enter of the Expedition 72 staff aboard the station. They will certainly participate in NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and will definitely invest concerning six months carrying out scientific investigation in microgravity and accomplishing a series of operational tasks before coming back home.More particulars regarding the mission and staff can be located by complying with the Crew-9 blog post, @commercial_crew on X, or business staff on Facebook. You can easily also comply with @astrohague on X and also Instagram.