It isn't usual to wish someone happy birthday while they are in space at the time, but today is Nick Hague's birthday. He is currently aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 59. Hague was born September 24, 1975 in Belleville, Kansas. He graduated from the US Air Force Academy. After he joined the Air Force, he was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in May 1998 and promoted to Colonel in 2016,
Hague's first trip into space aboard Soyuz MS-10 was aborted shortly after take-off. He and fellow astronaut Aleksey Ovchinin escaped safely.
Hague's second trip into space was aboard Soyuz MS-12, which was successfully launched March 2019, with Ovchinin and Christina Koch to the ISS. They are scheduled to return to Earth in October 2019.
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