.Editor's details: This release was updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to improve Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as a purpose professional. It was updated again to fix a launch date.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, recently introduced as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a future goal..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to pilot to the spaceport station as commander and purpose professional, respectively, as part of a two-crew tour aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved crew enhance complies with NASA's decision to return the company's Boeing Staff Tour Exam uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with 2 vacant chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that released aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will flight home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to pilot Hague was actually made by NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba must balance flighting a NASA workers member with previous spaceflight expertise to influence the tour, while guaranteeing NASA preserves an incorporated team along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can function their crucial systems for carried on, risk-free station procedures." While we've changed crew just before for an assortment of main reasons, downsizing staff for this trip was actually another challenging selection to adapt to considered that the staff has taught as a workers of 4," pointed out Acaba. "I possess miraculous peace of mind with all our staff, that have actually been great throughout training for the goal. Zena and Stephanie will certainly remain to aid their crewmates in advance of launch, as well as they embody what it implies to become a qualified rocketeer.".The firm is going to share reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when accessible." I am deeply pleased with our entire staff," pointed out Cardman, "and I am confident Chip and also Alex will definitely step into their functions with superiority. All four people remain specialized to the excellence of this particular goal, as well as Stephanie and I eagerly anticipate flighting when the time corrects.".Wilson included, "I recognize Nick and Alex will definitely carry out a terrific job with their work aboard the International Space Station as portion of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 days visited area, this will certainly be Hague's 3rd launch as well as second goal to the orbiting lab. During his first launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer breakdown, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also secure landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months later, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and worked as a trip developer aboard the space station in the course of Explorations 59 and also 60. Hague performed three spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station electrical power bodies and also install a docking adapter for office space probe. An active-duty colonel in the united state Room Pressure, Hague completed a developmental turning at the Defense Department, and acted as the Space Power's director of test and also analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed roles at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner Course till this air travel assignment. Comply With @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will definitely be actually Gorbunov's 1st journey to room as well as the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he studied design along with qualifications in space capsule as well as higher stages from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the military division with a specialty in operating and also repairing airplane, helicopters, and also aircraft engines. Just before his assortment as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as a developer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia and sustained freight space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Trip 72 staff aboard the terminal. They are going to sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner conducting clinical research as well as servicing tasks into the terminal's 24th year of constant human presence.Learn more about International Space Station investigation and functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- edge-.Josh Finch/ Jimi RussellHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ james.j.russell@nasa.gov.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.