“Nick, you received this award for the cause,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
In October 2018, during the launch of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft, a carrier accident occurred with the new ISS crew.
The astronauts on board, Alexei Ovchinin and Nick Hague, managed to land using a descent capsule.
In October, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree awarding Haig with the Order of Courage.