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Russia bestows medal on US astronaut in failed launch 8 October 2019 returned to Earth last week. The Order of Courage is one of Russia's top state awards and is often given posthumously. Space exploration is one of the few areas in which cooperation between Russia and the United States has not been undermined by tensions over Ukraine, Syria and elsewhere. © 2019 AFP Nick Hague, shown here aboard the ISS conversing live with US actor Brad Pitt, had a close brush with death along with Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin in October 2018 Russia has decorated NASA astronaut Nick Hague, who survived an aborted space launch last year, with one of its highest honours, the Order of Courage, a Kremlin decree said on Tuesday. Hague along with Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin had a close brush with death when their Soyuz rocket failed minutes after blast-off from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in October last year. They were forced to eject and make a harrowing emergency landing. It was the first such accident in Russia's post- Soviet history. In a decree released on Tuesday, the Kremlin commended 44-year-old Hague for his "courage and high professionalism" shown during life- threatening conditions. After the accident Hague and Ovchinin successfully launched to the International Space Station aboard another Soyuz rocket in March and 1 / 2 APA citation: Russia bestows medal on US astronaut in failed launch (2019, October 8) retrieved 29 September 2021 from https://phys.org/news/2019-10-russia-bestows-medal-astronaut.html This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only. 2 / 2 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org).

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