.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston carries a wide array of distinct accountabilities and also opportunities. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is right now preparing to release to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth rotational purpose under NASA's Commercial Workers Course. This are going to be actually the 3rd launch and also 2nd objective to the space station for Hague, that was actually picked as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has devoted 203 times precede.Hague was actually birthed as well as raised in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the country for university as well as job. He got degrees coming from the USA Sky Troop School in Colorado and the Massachusetts Principle of Innovation in Cambridge, as well as he participated in the U.S. Air Force Exam Fly Institution at Edwards Air Force Foundation in California. Hague's armed forces job has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and featured a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transferred from the Flying force to the U.S. Area Force in 2020 after working as the Area Force's supervisor of examination and also examination at the Government.Familiar with brand new places, Hague strongly recollects making his first trip to Johnson when he was interviewing to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no concept what to anticipate, and also it was a little bit overwhelming. I knew every person was actually seeing me and evaluating me," he said. "Fortunately, although I wasn't selected at that point, I got an additional chance a few years eventually. It is actually a quite enchanting area.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st rocketeer course. He was the first rocketeer coming from that group to become assigned to an objective, which introduced in October 2018 however was actually aborted quickly after launch. His following spaceflight happened in 2019, when he participated in three of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has actually created numerous memories at Johnson, yet one that sticks out is his expertise functioning onsite surrounded by the 2013 authorities cessation. "I am actually active-duty armed forces so I still came to function," he revealed. "I don't forget being onsite and the facility being fully empty. Being able to use around an unfilled campus on the free-range bikes-- it was actually relaxed and surreal." It was additionally an examine of what a lot of Johnson staff members experienced during the global and also exactly how NASA preserves continuous support for spaceflight functions no matter extenuating conditions.Hague right now expects yet another quest to reduced The planet track. NASA and SpaceX authorities currently consider to launch the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will ascend from Introduce Complex 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft as well as Dragon spacecraft.Hague as well as Gorbonov are going to become members of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the terminal. They are going to sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and also will certainly devote about 6 months conducting scientific analysis in microgravity as well as accomplishing a range of operational activities prior to returning home.More information regarding the mission as well as workers can be located through adhering to the Crew-9 weblog, @commercial_crew on X, or commercial crew on Facebook. You may also adhere to @astrohague on X and also Instagram.