.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston contains an assortment of distinct tasks as well as privileges. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those astronauts-- Scar Hague-- is now preparing to launch to the International Spaceport Station along with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th spinning objective under NASA's Office Team System. This will definitely be actually the 3rd launch as well as second purpose to the spaceport station for Hague, who was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and also has actually devoted 203 days in space.Hague was actually birthed and elevated in Kansas yet has crisscrossed the country for university and occupation. He earned degrees from the USA Air Troop School in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Principle of Innovation in Cambridge, as well as he went to the united state Flying force Test Captain College at Edwards Aviation Service Bottom in The Golden State. Hague's armed forces career has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., as well as included a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Air Force to the USA Room Interject 2020 after serving as the Area Pressure's director of examination as well as evaluation at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand new locations, Hague clearly recalls making his very first travel to Johnson when he was actually interviewing to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no suggestion what to count on, as well as it was actually a little bit mind-boggling. I knew everyone was watching me and evaluating me," he said. "Luckily, despite the fact that I wasn't chosen at that point, I got one more opportunity a handful of years later. It is actually a pretty magical spot.".Hague finished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st astronaut training class. He was actually the first astronaut from that team to become designated to a purpose, which released in October 2018 but was actually miscarried not long after departure. His following spaceflight developed in 2019, when he participated in three of his friends-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has created many minds at Johnson, but one that stands out is his expertise working onsite among the 2013 federal government shutdown. "I am actually active-duty military so I still related to work," he detailed. "I bear in mind being onsite and also the facility being entirely unfilled. Being able to use around an unfilled school on the free-range bikes-- it was peaceful and surreal." It was also a sneak peek of what lots of Johnson employees experienced throughout the pandemic as well as how NASA preserves continuous help for spaceflight operations despite extenuating instances.Hague right now expects another trip to reduced Earth track. NASA and also SpaceX authorities currently organize to release the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff will definitely ascend from Introduce Complicated 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Space Troop Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Monster space capsule.Hague as well as Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the station. They will certainly sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and also will definitely invest concerning six months carrying out clinical study in microgravity and finishing a stable of working activities prior to coming back home.Additional details concerning the goal and also crew may be located through complying with the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or office crew on Facebook. You can easily additionally observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.