.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston accommodates an assortment of distinct obligations as well as benefits. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Scar Hague-- is actually now preparing to launch to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning goal under NASA's Industrial Workers Program. This will definitely be the third launch and also second purpose to the space station for Hague, who was decided on as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and also has invested 203 times precede.Hague was born as well as elevated in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the country for university as well as occupation. He made levels coming from the United States Sky Force Academy in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Principle of Technology in Cambridge, and he participated in the U.S. Aviation service Test Pilot School at Edwards Aviation Service Bottom in The Golden State. Hague's army career has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and also included a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Flying force to the USA Room Force in 2020 after functioning as the Space Pressure's director of exam and examination at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand-new areas, Hague clearly remembers producing his very first travel to Johnson when he was speaking with to participate in NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no concept what to count on, as well as it was a bit overwhelming. I understood everyone was watching me and also determining me," he stated. "Fortunately, although I wasn't picked at that point, I acquired another possibility a couple of years later on. It's a quite magical place.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st rocketeer training class. He was actually the initial rocketeer coming from that team to be appointed to a purpose, which launched in October 2018 but was aborted not long after takeoff. His following spaceflight developed in 2019, when he joined three of his friends-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has actually created lots of minds at Johnson, but one that attracts attention is his knowledge working onsite amid the 2013 authorities closure. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still came to operate," he discussed. "I don't forget being actually onsite and also the facility being actually totally unfilled. Being able to use around an unfilled grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was calm as well as surreal." It was actually additionally a preview of what several Johnson staff members experienced in the course of the global as well as just how NASA keeps continuous support for spaceflight operations regardless of extenuating circumstances.Hague currently looks ahead to yet another experience to low Planet track. NASA and SpaceX officials currently plan to release the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will certainly lift off from Launch Intricate 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Space Troop Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Monster space probe.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Expedition 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will definitely sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and will spend concerning six months administering scientific research in microgravity as well as accomplishing a variety of working tasks before returning home.More details regarding the objective and also workers can be located by complying with the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or even industrial team on Facebook. You may also comply with @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.