.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston holds a wide array of one-of-a-kind tasks as well as privileges. Those include being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is actually now readying to launch to the International Spaceport Station in addition to Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th spinning goal under NASA's Business Crew Program. This will be the third launch and also 2nd objective to the spaceport station for Hague, that was selected as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has invested 203 times in space.Hague was actually birthed as well as increased in Kansas however has actually crisscrossed the country for university and also career. He got levels from the United States Air Troop School in Colorado and the Massachusetts Principle of Modern Technology in Cambridge, as well as he went to the U.S. Aviation service Examination Captain Institution at Edwards Flying Force Foundation in The Golden State. Hague's military job has 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 Air Force to the USA Space Interject 2020 after functioning as the Area Power's director of examination as well as examination at the Government.Familiar with brand-new spots, Hague vividly recalls creating his first travel to Johnson when he was questioning to sign up with NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no concept what to count on, and it was actually a little bit difficult. I understood every person was actually viewing me and also judging me," he stated. "Thankfully, although I wasn't chosen at that point, I received an additional opportunity a couple of years later. It's a quite magical area.".Hague finished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st astronaut course. He was actually the initial astronaut from that team to be appointed to a purpose, which introduced in Oct 2018 yet was actually miscarried quickly after launch. His following spaceflight developed in 2019, when he participated in 3 of his schoolmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has actually created numerous minds at Johnson, yet one that attracts attention is his adventure working onsite in the middle of the 2013 federal government shutdown. "I am actually active-duty army so I still involved function," he explained. "I always remember being actually onsite and also the center being fully empty. Being able to use around an unfilled school on the free-range bikes-- it was actually quiet as well as surreal." It was actually likewise an examine of what numerous Johnson employees experienced during the course of the global and also how NASA preserves continuous support for spaceflight operations despite mitigating scenarios.Hague right now looks ahead to an additional trip to low Planet orbit. NASA and also SpaceX authorities currently plan to release the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew will ascend coming from Launch Complex 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Space Troop Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft as well as Monster space capsule.Hague as well as Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Trip 72 workers aboard the station. They will certainly join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, as well as are going to invest about 6 months administering scientific research study in microgravity and accomplishing a stable of operational tasks prior to coming back home.Even more details about the mission and also crew may be found by observing the Crew-9 weblog, @commercial_crew on X, or even industrial staff on Facebook. You can easily also follow @astrohague on X and also Instagram.