.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston contains a range of special tasks and also privileges. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Among those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is right now prepping to launch to the International Space Station alongside Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine spinning mission under NASA's Office Workers System. This are going to be actually the third launch and 2nd mission to the spaceport station for Hague, that was chosen as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has actually spent 203 times precede.Hague was born and raised in Kansas but has actually crisscrossed the nation for university as well as job. He made levels coming from the USA Air Force School in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Principle of Modern Technology in Cambridge, and he attended the USA Air Force Examination Aviator College at Edwards Flying Force Bottom in The Golden State. Hague's military occupation has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and featured a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transferred from the Air Force to the U.S. Space Interject 2020 after functioning as the Area Force's supervisor of examination as well as analysis at the Government.Familiar with new locations, Hague clearly recollects making his initial travel to Johnson when he was speaking with to participate in NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no suggestion what to anticipate, and it was actually a little bit frustrating. I knew everyone was actually viewing me as well as determining me," he stated. "The good news is, even though I had not been picked at that point, I obtained an additional opportunity a few years later. It's a pretty magical place.".Hague accomplished his astronaut training in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st rocketeer class. He was actually the initial rocketeer coming from that team to become delegated to a goal, which launched in Oct 2018 however was actually aborted shortly after departure. His next spaceflight happened in 2019, when he signed up with three of his classmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually created many memories at Johnson, but one that stands apart is his adventure operating onsite amidst the 2013 federal government closure. "I'm active-duty military so I still related to function," he revealed. "I keep in mind being actually onsite and the center being totally vacant. Managing to use around a vacant university on the free-range bikes-- it was relaxed as well as surreal." It was actually also a sneak peek of what a lot of Johnson staff members experienced throughout the global and exactly how NASA keeps continuous help for spaceflight functions despite mitigating conditions.Hague now expects another quest to low Earth track. NASA as well as SpaceX representatives presently plan to release the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will certainly lift off coming from Release Complicated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Room Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Dragon space capsule.Hague and Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Expedition 72 team aboard the station. They will certainly join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and also are going to spend regarding six months conducting scientific research study in microgravity and finishing a series of working tasks before returning home.Even more particulars regarding the goal as well as staff can be located through adhering to the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or even business staff on Facebook. You may additionally adhere to @astrohague on X and Instagram.