.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston holds an assortment of special duties and also benefits. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.One of those rocketeers-- Nick Hague-- is actually now preparing to release to the International Spaceport Station along with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth rotational purpose under NASA's Industrial Staff Program. This will definitely be the third launch and also second objective to the space station for Hague, who was actually chosen as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has spent 203 times in space.Hague was birthed and also increased in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the nation for college as well as occupation. He earned degrees coming from the United States Air Troop Institute in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Modern Technology in Cambridge, and he participated in the united state Flying force Examination Aviator University at Edwards Air Force Bottom in California. Hague's armed forces occupation has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and also consisted of a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Air Force to the U.S. Space Force in 2020 after serving as the Space Pressure's director of exam and analysis at the Pentagon.Familiar with brand new areas, Hague strongly remembers making his 1st excursion to Johnson when he was actually questioning to participate in NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no idea what to expect, and also it was a bit overwhelming. I knew every person was actually enjoying me as well as determining me," he said. "Luckily, even though I had not been chosen after that, I received yet another odds a few years later on. It is actually a rather magical place.".Hague completed his rocketeer training in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st rocketeer training class. He was actually the initial rocketeer from that team to become delegated to an objective, which launched in Oct 2018 yet was actually miscarried not long after departure. His following spaceflight took place in 2019, when he joined three of his friends-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has actually made several minds at Johnson, however one that stands apart is his expertise working onsite amid the 2013 authorities cessation. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still came to function," he detailed. "I always remember being onsite as well as the center being fully unfilled. Having the capacity to use around a vacant campus on the free-range bikes-- it was actually relaxed and also unique." It was actually additionally a preview of what numerous Johnson employees experienced throughout the global as well as how NASA preserves day-and-night assistance for spaceflight procedures irrespective of mitigating instances.Hague currently looks ahead to another adventure to low The planet orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX representatives currently organize to introduce the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew will certainly take off coming from Release Intricate 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Area Force Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space probe.Hague and also Gorbonov will enter of the Trip 72 team aboard the station. They will join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, as well as will definitely invest concerning six months administering medical analysis in microgravity as well as finishing a stable of functional tasks prior to returning home.Additional information concerning the goal as well as team could be located through complying with the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or even office workers on Facebook. You can easily likewise adhere to @astrohague on X and Instagram.