Tyler N. Hague

Tyler Nicklaus Hague

Country:	United States United States
Organization:	NASA
selected on	June 17, 2013 ( 21st NASA Group )
Calls:	1 space flight
Begin:	March 14, 2019
Landing:	3rd October 2019
Time in space:	202d 15h 45min
EVA inserts:	2
EVA total duration:	13h 24min
Space flights
Soyuz MS-12 (2019) ISS expedition 59 ISS expedition 60

Tyler Nicklaus "Nick" Hague (born September 24, 1975 in Belleville , Kansas , USA ) is an American astronaut .

Hague is a Lt. Col. in the US Air Force based in Hoxie . He is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and the United States Air Force Academy at Edwards AFB .

Career

He graduated from Hoxie High School in 1994 and received a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from the United States Air Force Academy four years later . In 2000 he received a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . On June 17, 2013, he was introduced to the public by NASA as one of eight astronaut candidates. Basic training began on August 20, 2013 and ended on July 7, 2015.

NASA missions

Hague was the first of his class to be assigned to a mission. He took off on October 11, 2018 on board the Soyuz MS-10 and was supposed to take part as a flight engineer on Expedition 58 on the ISS . However, after a missile defect, the spaceship did not reach orbit in the first few minutes of flight and had to make an emergency landing. He was able to catch up on his flight to the ISS on March 14, 2019 with the Soyuz MS-12 due to the changes made in the team planning. There he was a member of ISS expeditions 59 and 60 . On October 3, 2019, he landed together with Alexei Ovchinin and the ISS short-term visitor Hassa al-Mansuri in the Kazakh steppe .

Awards

In October 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Nick Hague to be awarded the Order of Valor for his “courage and high professionalism” during the Soyuz-10 launch .

Web links

Commons : Nick Hague - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Tyler N. Hague on the NASA website - biography, pictures and videos (English; PDF)
Short biography of Tyler N. Hague at spacefacts.de
Biography of Tyler N. Hague in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)

Individual evidence

↑ NASA: 2013 Astronaut Class. Retrieved July 1, 2018 .
^ Robert Z. Pearlman: NASA's Astronaut Candidate Class Of 2013 Reports For Training (VIDEO). Huffington Post, August 21, 2013, accessed July 1, 2018 .
↑ NASA: NASA's Newest Astronauts Complete Training. July 9, 2015, accessed July 1, 2018 .
↑ NASA: NASA Statement on Soyuz MS-10 Launch Abort. In: NASA Press Release 18-089. October 11, 2018, accessed October 11, 2018 .
↑ Anatoly Zak: Soyuz MS-12. In: Russian Space Web. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
↑ Putin signs decree on awarding Order of Courage to NASA astronaut Nick Hague . TASS, October 8, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Hague, Tyler N.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hague, Tyler Nicklaus (full name); Hague, Nick (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH	September 24, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH	Belleville , Kansas , USA

[1] NASA: 2013 Astronaut Class. Retrieved July 1, 2018 .

[2] Robert Z. Pearlman: NASA's Astronaut Candidate Class Of 2013 Reports For Training (VIDEO). Huffington Post, August 21, 2013, accessed July 1, 2018 .

[3] NASA: NASA's Newest Astronauts Complete Training. July 9, 2015, accessed July 1, 2018 .

[4] NASA: NASA Statement on Soyuz MS-10 Launch Abort. In: NASA Press Release 18-089. October 11, 2018, accessed October 11, 2018 .

[5] Anatoly Zak: Soyuz MS-12. In: Russian Space Web. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .

[6] Putin signs decree on awarding Order of Courage to NASA astronaut Nick Hague . TASS, October 8, 2019.