.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston accommodates a selection of special accountabilities as well as benefits. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Among those astronauts-- Scar Hague-- is currently prepping to launch to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th spinning mission under NASA's Commercial Workers Program. This will certainly be actually the 3rd launch as well as second purpose to the space station for Hague, that was actually selected as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has actually invested 203 days in space.Hague was birthed and raised in Kansas but has crisscrossed the country for university and also profession. He earned degrees from the USA Sky Force Academy in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Principle of Innovation in Cambridge, as well as he joined the U.S. Air Force Exam Fly School at Edwards Air Force Foundation in The Golden State. Hague's armed forces career has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and included a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague moved coming from the Aviation service to the U.S. Room Force in 2020 after working as the Area Pressure's director of examination and also assessment at the Government.Familiar with brand-new areas, Hague clearly recalls making his initial vacation to Johnson when he was actually questioning to join NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no suggestion what to anticipate, and also it was actually a bit difficult. I knew everybody was actually seeing me and also evaluating me," he stated. "Fortunately, even though I wasn't picked then, I got an additional opportunity a couple of years later on. It's a quite enchanting location.".Hague finished his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st rocketeer course. He was the 1st rocketeer from that group to be delegated to a purpose, which launched in Oct 2018 but was miscarried quickly after launch. His next spaceflight took place in 2019, when he participated in three of his friends-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has made many minds at Johnson, however one that attracts attention is his adventure working onsite surrounded by the 2013 authorities cessation. "I'm active-duty military so I still involved work," he revealed. "I always remember being actually onsite and the facility being actually fully empty. Being able to use around an empty school on the free-range bikes-- it was actually calm and also unique." It was actually additionally a sneak peek of what several Johnson staff members experienced in the course of the global and how NASA preserves nonstop support for spaceflight functions no matter extenuating conditions.Hague currently looks ahead to one more quest to low The planet track. NASA and also SpaceX officials presently organize to launch the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew is going to ascend coming from Introduce Intricate 40 from the Cape Canaveral Area Troop Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Dragon space capsule.Hague as well as Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Expedition 72 crew aboard the terminal. They will join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, as well as are going to devote regarding 6 months performing scientific analysis in microgravity and completing a series of working activities just before returning home.More information about the goal as well as workers could be found by adhering to the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or industrial team on Facebook. You can easily additionally comply with @astrohague on X and also Instagram.