Col. Nick Hague was selected by NASA as an astronaut in 2013. 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. Hague completed astronaut candidate training in July 2015. During his first mission to the International Space Station in 2018, he and his crewmate Alexey Ovchinin, of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, experienced a catastrophic rocket booster malfunction that resulted in the launch abort of their Soyuz MS-10. In 2019, Hague launched on Soyuz MS-12 and served as flight engineer on the International Space Station for 203 days during Expedition 59 and 60. From 2020 to 2022, Hague completed a developmental rotation with the United States Space Force, serving as the new military service’s Director of Test and Evaluation at The Pentagon in Washington D.C. He returned to NASA in August 2022 to work on the Boeing Starliner Program. 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. Courtesy of NASA.