.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston contains a variety of distinct obligations and also advantages. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Among those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is now prepping to launch to the International Spaceport Station along with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational goal under NASA's Commercial Crew Plan. This will definitely be actually the 3rd launch and also 2nd goal to the space station for Hague, that was decided on as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has invested 203 times in space.Hague was actually birthed as well as increased in Kansas but has actually crisscrossed the nation for college as well as profession. He earned degrees from the USA Sky Troop Institute in Colorado and the Massachusetts Principle of Modern Technology in Cambridge, and also he participated in the USA Flying force Test Fly College at Edwards Air Force Bottom in California. Hague's military profession has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., as well as consisted of a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague moved from the Aviation service to the USA Area Interject 2020 after acting as the Area Power's director of test and also assessment at the Pentagon.Familiar with brand-new areas, Hague vividly recollects producing his 1st trip to Johnson when he was speaking with to sign up with NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no idea what to anticipate, and it was actually a little overwhelming. I knew everyone was enjoying me and also judging me," he claimed. "Fortunately, despite the fact that I wasn't decided on then, I received one more opportunity a handful of years later on. It is actually a rather wonderful location.".Hague completed his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st rocketeer class. He was the initial rocketeer from that group to be designated to a purpose, which released in October 2018 yet was actually miscarried shortly after takeoff. His upcoming spaceflight developed in 2019, when he joined three of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has made many moments at Johnson, yet one that attracts attention is his expertise functioning onsite among the 2013 federal government closure. "I am actually active-duty army so I still involved function," he explained. "I keep in mind being onsite as well as the facility being fully vacant. Being able to use around an empty grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was relaxed and unique." It was likewise a sneak peek of what several Johnson staff members experienced in the course of the global and also exactly how NASA preserves round-the-clock assistance for spaceflight functions regardless of extenuating scenarios.Hague right now expects yet another experience to reduced Planet track. NASA and SpaceX officials currently organize to introduce the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers is going to take off from Release Complicated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Room Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft as well as Monster spacecraft.Hague and also Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Expedition 72 team aboard the terminal. They will sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and will devote concerning six months performing scientific research in microgravity and accomplishing a series of operational activities just before returning home.Even more details concerning the goal and also workers may be discovered through adhering to the Crew-9 blog post, @commercial_crew on X, or even industrial workers on Facebook. You may additionally observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.