Liftoff Videos

Every mission, with the videos that tell it

Nick Hague

Portrait photograph of Nick Hague

Photo: U.S. Space Force / Public domain (US government work)

Nick Hague is a United States Space Force brigadier general and retired NASA astronaut, selected in 2013. His first flight, Soyuz MS-10 on 11 October 2018, was aborted shortly after launch. He launched successfully on Soyuz MS-12 on 14 March 2019 and joined Expedition 59 and Expedition 60 as a flight engineer. He later commanded SpaceX Crew-9, which carried the crew of Expedition 72 to the station and, on 18 March 2025, brought home Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who had flown on the Boeing Crew Flight Test. Wikidata records 373 days and 20 hours in space.

Born
24 September 1975
Country
United States
Flights
3: Soyuz MS-10 (2018), Soyuz MS-12 (2019), SpaceX Crew-9 (2024)
Time in space
373 days 20 hours
Stations visited
International Space Station, as part of Expedition 59, Expedition 60, Expedition 72
Flights with a company
SpaceX Crew-9 (SpaceX)

Data as of 2 November 2026. Source: Wikidata (CC0). All people who have flown in space.

Events

  • 20 November 1998

    International Space Station

    The station is still in operation. Modules were built in Russia, the US and Europe, and the project grew out of a post-Cold War partnership. It is now due to be deorbited, with SpaceX named as the vehicle operator around 2030 in one video.

    2 videos
    • DW Documentary
    • Curious Droid

Videos on this topic

The videos, in date order

Drag, zoom or press play to watch them on this page.

ISS Story: From Zarya’s 1998 Launch to Planned De-Orbit

DW Documentary

Duration 28:26

Watch video

Dates are when each video was first published on YouTube.

All the videos

  1. ISS Story: From Zarya’s 1998 Launch to Planned De-Orbit

    DocumentaryDW Documentary · 28:26

    Mission: International Space Station (1998)