.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston contains a variety of distinct tasks and also opportunities. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.One of those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is actually now preparing to release to the International Space Station together with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning mission under NASA's Commercial Crew System. This will definitely be the third launch as well as second goal to the space station for Hague, that was picked as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and also has actually invested 203 times in space.Hague was actually born as well as elevated in Kansas but has actually crisscrossed the country for college as well as job. He earned degrees from the United States Sky Troop Institute in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and also he attended the U.S. Flying force Exam Fly School at Edwards Air Force Bottom in California. Hague's armed forces profession has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., as well as featured a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Flying force to the United State Room Force in 2020 after serving as the Space Force's supervisor of examination and also evaluation at the Government.Familiar with new areas, Hague strongly remembers producing his 1st excursion to Johnson when he was actually speaking with to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no idea what to anticipate, and it was a little bit difficult. I understood everybody was actually enjoying me as well as evaluating me," he stated. "Thankfully, despite the fact that I wasn't chosen after that, I obtained one more chance a handful of years later. It is actually a rather enchanting area.".Hague accomplished his astronaut training in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st astronaut lesson. He was actually the 1st astronaut coming from that group to become delegated to an objective, which released in Oct 2018 however was actually aborted not long after departure. His upcoming spaceflight developed in 2019, when he participated in 3 of his classmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has actually created lots of moments at Johnson, but one that stands out is his experience functioning onsite among the 2013 authorities shutdown. "I'm active-duty military so I still concerned operate," he detailed. "I remember being actually onsite and the facility being entirely empty. Managing to use around an unfilled grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was actually quiet and also unique." It was actually likewise a preview of what several Johnson workers experienced in the course of the pandemic and also exactly how NASA maintains continuous support for spaceflight functions despite extenuating situations.Hague currently expects an additional experience to reduced Planet track. NASA as well as SpaceX representatives presently organize to introduce the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers is going to take off from Release Complex 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Area Troop Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule.Hague as well as Gorbonov will enter of the Exploration 72 team aboard the station. They will definitely participate in NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, as well as will certainly devote about 6 months carrying out medical investigation in microgravity and accomplishing a stable of operational activities just before coming back home.Additional particulars concerning the mission as well as team can be discovered by observing the Crew-9 weblog, @commercial_crew on X, or commercial crew on Facebook. You can easily additionally follow @astrohague on X and Instagram.