.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston contains an assortment of distinct duties and advantages. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is actually right now readying to release to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational mission under NASA's Business Workers Program. This are going to be the 3rd launch as well as second goal to the spaceport station for Hague, who was decided on as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has devoted 203 days precede.Hague was born and also raised in Kansas but has crisscrossed the country for college and also job. He got levels from the USA Sky Troop Academy in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, and also he attended the U.S. Aviation service Examination Captain School at Edwards Flying Force Base in California. Hague's army career has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and also consisted of a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Flying force to the United State Space Force in 2020 after serving as the Area Power's supervisor of examination and evaluation at the Government.Familiar with brand-new locations, Hague strongly recalls producing his 1st travel to Johnson when he was questioning to sign up with NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no tip what to anticipate, and it was actually a little difficult. I knew everybody was watching me and also judging me," he claimed. "The good news is, even though I wasn't picked after that, I got yet another possibility a couple of years later on. It's a pretty wonderful area.".Hague completed his astronaut training in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st astronaut class. He was actually the 1st rocketeer from that group to be assigned to a goal, which released in October 2018 but was aborted soon after launch. His following spaceflight developed in 2019, when he joined 3 of his classmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually made many minds at Johnson, yet one that attracts attention is his knowledge working onsite amid the 2013 authorities closure. "I am actually active-duty military so I still involved work," he revealed. "I bear in mind being actually onsite and the facility being entirely vacant. Having the capacity to use around a vacant school on the free-range bikes-- it was actually serene and also surreal." It was actually likewise an examine of what lots of Johnson workers experienced during the course of the pandemic as well as just how NASA preserves continuous help for spaceflight operations despite mitigating circumstances.Hague right now expects yet another quest to reduced Earth track. NASA as well as SpaceX representatives currently consider to release the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will definitely take off coming from Introduce Complicated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Room Force Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft.Hague as well as Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Trip 72 workers aboard the station. They will definitely join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, as well as will devote concerning six months conducting clinical analysis in microgravity and also completing a series of working tasks prior to returning home.Additional details regarding the purpose as well as crew can be located by observing the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or even business crew on Facebook. You can easily also observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.