.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston contains a range of one-of-a-kind obligations and also advantages. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.One of those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is currently readying to introduce to the International Space Station in addition to Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine rotational mission under NASA's Office Workers Program. This will be actually the 3rd launch and also 2nd purpose to the space station for Hague, who was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has spent 203 days in space.Hague was born and raised in Kansas however has crisscrossed the nation for college as well as career. He earned levels coming from the USA Sky Force Institute in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Modern Technology in Cambridge, as well as he went to the U.S. Air Force Examination Captain College at Edwards Air Force Foundation in California. Hague's army career has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and also consisted of a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague moved from the Flying force to the United State Area Force in 2020 after serving as the Space Power's director of examination as well as analysis at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand-new places, Hague vividly remembers making his 1st journey to Johnson when he was speaking with to sign up with NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no idea what to count on, and also it was actually a little bit mind-boggling. I understood every person was viewing me and also determining me," he said. "Thankfully, although I wasn't picked after that, I obtained one more opportunity a few years later. It is actually a pretty magical place.".Hague completed his rocketeer training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st rocketeer training class. He was actually the 1st astronaut coming from that team to become designated to a purpose, which launched in Oct 2018 yet was actually miscarried shortly after takeoff. His upcoming spaceflight developed in 2019, when he signed up with three of his classmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has actually created a lot of moments at Johnson, but one that sticks out is his adventure working onsite amid the 2013 authorities cessation. "I'm active-duty military so I still related to function," he described. "I always remember being onsite and the center being totally unfilled. Having the capacity to use around an empty university on the free-range bikes-- it was tranquil as well as unique." It was also an examine of what several Johnson employees experienced in the course of the widespread and also how NASA keeps day-and-night assistance for spaceflight operations irrespective of extenuating scenarios.Hague right now expects an additional experience to low Planet orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX officials currently organize to introduce the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff will ascend from Introduce Complicated 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Dragon space capsule.Hague as well as Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Trip 72 crew aboard the terminal. They will certainly join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and will certainly devote regarding 6 months carrying out scientific research study in microgravity and also completing a range of operational activities prior to returning home.More information about the objective as well as workers could be discovered through adhering to the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or even industrial crew on Facebook. You may also comply with @astrohague on X and Instagram.