.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston contains a range of one-of-a-kind duties as well as opportunities. Those include being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Among those astronauts-- Scar Hague-- is right now prepping to introduce to the International Space Station alongside Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning purpose under NASA's Industrial Workers Plan. This will definitely be actually the third launch and also second purpose to the space station for Hague, who was selected as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has invested 203 days in space.Hague was actually birthed and increased in Kansas but has crisscrossed the nation for university and occupation. He made degrees from the USA Sky Troop School in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Innovation in Cambridge, as well as he joined the U.S. Flying force Test Pilot College at Edwards Flying Force Bottom in The Golden State. Hague's armed forces job has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., as well as featured a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transferred from the Air Force to the USA Space Force in 2020 after functioning as the Space Power's supervisor of exam and also examination at the Government.Familiar with brand-new areas, Hague vividly remembers creating his initial vacation to Johnson when he was actually interviewing to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no tip what to expect, and also it was a bit mind-boggling. I recognized everyone was actually watching me as well as determining me," he stated. "Fortunately, despite the fact that I wasn't decided on after that, I got yet another odds a handful of years later. It's a pretty wonderful spot.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st rocketeer class. He was actually the very first rocketeer coming from that team to be appointed to a goal, which launched in Oct 2018 but was actually aborted shortly after departure. His following spaceflight took place in 2019, when he participated in three of his schoolmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has created many minds at Johnson, however one that attracts attention is his knowledge working onsite in the middle of the 2013 federal government shutdown. "I am actually active-duty army so I still came to work," he revealed. "I keep in mind being actually onsite as well as the facility being actually fully unfilled. Having the ability to use around an empty grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was actually serene and also surreal." It was actually also a sneak peek of what a lot of Johnson workers experienced during the global and also just how NASA sustains nonstop support for spaceflight operations no matter extenuating circumstances.Hague now looks ahead to another experience to low Earth track. NASA and also SpaceX officials currently intend to release the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff will certainly take off from Launch Sophisticated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Room Force Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft as well as Monster space capsule.Hague as well as Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the station. They will join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, as well as are going to spend regarding six months administering scientific research study in microgravity as well as accomplishing a series of working tasks before returning home.More information regarding the objective and also team could be located through complying with the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or office crew on Facebook. You may likewise follow @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.