NASA Astronaut Nick Hague

Tyler “Nick” Hague was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and served as a flight engineer on the International Space Station for Expedition 59 and 60. For his second mission to the space station, Hague launched as commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission on Sept. 28 alongside crewmate Aleksandr Gorbunov. Both are currently serving as flight engineers aboard the space station on a five-month science expedition.

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In 2021, Hague voluntarily transferred from the United States Air Force to the United States Space Force.

Hague was the first astronaut from his class to be assigned to a mission which launched on October 11, 2018. Unfortunately, he and his crewmate Alexey Ovchinin, of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, were forced to abort the mission when a rocket booster experienced a malfunction shortly after the launch of their Soyuz MS-10. The aborted spacecraft landed safely.

The Kansas native earned a Bachelor of Science in Astronautical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1998, and a Master of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000.

(20 April 2018) Official NASA Astronaut Portrait in EMU – Expedition 57/58 Crew Member Nick Hague. (Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel)

(18 April 2014) Astronaut Nick Hague prepares for a flight in a T-38 jet at Ellington Field as part of astronaut training. (Credit: NASA)

(8 August 2017) NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Serena Aunon-Chancellor and Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques train with their spacesuits for their upcoming mission in a mockup of the International Space Station’s Airlock at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. (Credit: NASA)

(22 March 2019) NASA astronaut Nick Hague is tethered to the International Space Station during a six-hour, 39-minute spacewalk to upgrade the orbital complex’s power storage capacity. (Credit: NASA)

(24 May 2019) NASA astronaut Nick Hague transfers research samples into a specialized science freezer located aboard the International Space Station. The ultra-cold freezers are nicknamed GLACIER, short for The General Laboratory Active Cryogenic International Space Station (ISS) Experiment Refrigerator, and store samples at temperatures as low as -160 °C (-301 °F). (Credit: NASA)

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NASA astronaut Nick Hague takes an out-of-this-world "space-selfie" 250 miles above Earth during a spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station's power storage capacity.

(22 March 2019) NASA astronaut Nick Hague takes an out-of-this-world “space-selfie” 250 miles above Earth during a spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station’s power storage capacity. This was Hague’s and NASA astronaut Anne McClain’s (out of frame) first spacewalk. (Credit: NASA/Nick Hague)