Nick Hague

Tyler Nicklaus "Nick" Hague (born 24 September 1975) is a United States Space Force colonel and a NASA astronaut of the class of 2013.

He was assigned to the Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico in August 2000, working on advanced spacecraft technologies.

Hague was deployed in Iraq for five months in 2004, supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom, and conducting experimental airborne reconnaissance.

In 2006, Hague started teaching courses in the Department of Astronautics faculty at the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado.

[10] Hague was selected by NASA as part of Astronaut Group 21 and completed training in July 2015, making him available for future missions.

[12][6] The Soyuz flight was aborted at an altitude of around 50 kilometers (31 miles) and the spacecraft reached an apogee of 93 km (58 mi) before landing 19 minutes and 41 seconds after launch, according to a preliminary official report.

As a result, NASA considered this to be Hague's first spaceflight, unlike RSA, and the two agencies therefore count subsequent flights differently.

[15] Hague launched successfully to the ISS on 14 March 2019, travelling on Soyuz MS-12 with Russian Commander Aleksey Ovchinin and fellow American astronaut Christina Koch.

In an interview with Space.com in February 2019, Hague stated that his mission would be lasting 204 days, meaning the prospect of him staying 14 months on the station was off the table.

They also removed debris from the Unity Module in preparation for the arrival of Cygnus NG-11 in April, stowing tools for the repair of the flex hose rotary coupler, and securing tiebacks on the solar array blanket boxes.

During the six-hour spacewalk led by Hague, the pair replaced a rate gyro assembly that helps provide orientation control for the station, installed patches to cover damaged areas on the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-ray telescope, replaced a reflector device used by spacecraft docking to the International Docking Adapter on the Harmony module's zenith side and performed checks on access areas and tools that will be used for future maintenance work on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.

Hague (top) and Alexey Ovchinin (bottom) wave farewell prior to boarding the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft on 11 October 2018
Hague during a spacewalk wearing the Space Force Delta on his arm along with the motto