{"id":52150,"date":"2018-12-03T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-436802"},"modified":"2023-07-26T15:14:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:14:27","slug":"nasa-astronaut-nick-hague-set-for-new-space-station-mission-after-abort","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-astronaut-nick-hague-set-for-new-space-station-mission-after-abort\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Astronaut Nick Hague Set for New Space Station Mission After Abort"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/18-106.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/18-106.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Hammock Koch and Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/18-106.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/18-106.jpg?resize=300,186 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/18-106.jpg?resize=768,475 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/18-106.jpg?resize=1024,634 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/18-106.jpg?resize=1536,951 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/18-106.jpg?resize=2048,1267 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/18-106.jpg?resize=400,248 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/18-106.jpg?resize=600,371 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/18-106.jpg?resize=900,557 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/18-106.jpg?resize=1200,743 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/18-106.jpg?resize=2000,1238 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Hammock Koch and Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos are scheduled to launch Feb. 28, 2019, from the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a mission to the International Space Station as members of Expeditions 59 and 60. <strong>Credits: NASA<\/strong><\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>2\/11\/18 Editor\u2019s note: <\/strong>The Expedition 59-60\/Soyuz MS-12 launch is now scheduled for <strong>3:14 p.m. EST <\/strong><strong>March 14, 2019<\/strong>, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>12\/11\/18 Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> The sixth paragraph was updated to reflect the accurate reasoning for why NASA recognizes Nick Hague as a flown astronaut. Because Hague and Ovchinin launched and landed in a spacecraft on an intended mission to the International Space Station, NASA considers them to have achieved the status of flown astronauts, making this Hague\u2019s second spaceflight and Ovchinin\u2019s third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/tyler-nick-hague\">Nick Hague<\/a>, who was forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-statement-on-soyuz-ms-10-launch-abort\">abort<\/a> his recent mission to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/station\">International Space Station<\/a>, is scheduled to launch again Feb. 28, 2019, from the Baikonur\u200b Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hague will launch with Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, who was his commander and crewmate on the aborted mission in October, and NASA astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/christina-h-koch\">Christina Hammock Koch<\/a> aboard the Russian Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft. The trio will join the station\u2019s Expedition 59 crew and return to Earth in October 2019 as members of Expedition 60. Hague and Koch will serve as flight engineers for Expeditions 59 and 60. Ovchinin will serve as a flight engineer on Expedition 59 and the commander of Expedition 60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hague will be available for media interviews at 7 a.m. EST Friday, Dec. 7. To schedule an interview, media must contact Megan Sumner at megan.c.sumner@nasa.gov or 281-483-5111 by noon Thursday, Dec. 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All three crew members will participate in a news conference at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The news conference will air live on NASA TV and the agency\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/live\">website<\/a>. To participate in person, media must contact Johnson\u2019s newsroom at 281-483-5111 by 5 p.m. on Dec. 11 for credentials. To participate by phone, media must contact Johnson\u2019s newsroom by 1:45 p.m. Dec. 12. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During their mission, the station crew will take part in about 250 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/research\/overview.html\">research investigations<\/a> and technology demonstrations not possible on Earth to advance scientific knowledge of Earth, space, physical, and biological sciences. Science conducted on the space station continues to yield benefits for humanity and will enable future long-duration human and robotic exploration on missions to the Moon and Mars. The crew also is scheduled to be onboard during the first test flights of NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/exploration\/commercial\/crew\/index.html\">Commercial Crew Program<\/a>, which will return human spaceflight launches to U.S. soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be Koch\u2019s first spaceflight. Hague and Ovchinin were scheduled to join the station\u2019s Expedition 57 crew on Oct. 11, but were forced to abort their mission when their Soyuz\u2019s rocket booster experienced a malfunction shortly after launch. Because Hague and Ovchinin launched and landed in a spacecraft on an intended mission to the International Space Station, NASA considers them to have achieved the status of flown astronauts, making this Hague\u2019s second spaceflight and Ovchinin\u2019s third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hague is a native of Hoxie, Kansas, and a colonel in the U.S. Air Force. Prior to his selection as an astronaut in 2013, he was part of the Air Force Fellows Program in Washington, where he worked as an adviser to the U.S. Senate on matters of national defense and foreign policy. He earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in astronautical engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy and a master\u2019s degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Koch, who grew up in Jacksonville, North Carolina, earned bachelor\u2019s degrees in electrical engineering and physics and a master\u2019s degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Her career includes experience as an electrical engineer focusing on space science instrument design at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the Johns Hopkins University\u2019s Applied Physics Lab, in Laurel, Maryland. She also worked as a research associate with the United States Antarctic Program, completing several deployments, including spending the winter at the South Pole. Her work at remote scientific research stations went on to include sessions as a field engineer in the Arctic and as station chief with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in American Samoa. She was selected by NASA as an astronaut in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See video of Hague\u2019s launch, abort, and landing, as well as interviews and family welcome at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/astronaut-cosmonaut-safe-after-abort-during-launch-to-international-space-station\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow Hague on social media at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"500\" data-height=\"750\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AstroHague?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">Tweets by AstroHague<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/astrohague\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow Koch on social media at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"500\" data-height=\"750\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Astro_Christina?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">Tweets by Astro_Christina<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AstroChristina\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/astro_christina\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>-end-<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Stephanie Schierholz<br \/>\nHeadquarters, Washington<br \/>\n202-358-1100<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov\">stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov<\/a><br \/>\nMegan Sumner<br \/>\nJohnson Space Center, Houston<br \/>\n281-483-5111<br \/>\nmegan.c.sumner@nasa.gov<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2\/11\/18 Editor\u2019s note: The Expedition 59-60\/Soyuz MS-12 launch is now scheduled for 3:14 p.m. EST March 14, 2019, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.  12\/11\/18 Editor\u2019s note: The sixth paragraph was updated to reflect the accurate reasoning for why NASA recognizes Nick Hague as a flown astronaut. 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