.Editor's details: This release was actually updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to deal with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as a purpose specialist. It was actually improved once more to fix a launch day.NASA astronaut Chip Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, previously introduced as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a future mission..Hague and Gorbunov will take flight to the space station as leader as well as objective professional, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew element air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated workers enhance adheres to NASA's selection to come back the company's Boeing Crew Flight Exam uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with two deserted chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, will take flight home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to take flight Hague was made by NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba needed to balance taking flight a NASA staff participant with previous spaceflight expertise to control the air travel, while ensuring NASA preserves an incorporated team with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can run their crucial units for carried on, risk-free station functions." While we've changed staff just before for a wide array of factors, downsizing team for this air travel was actually another hard decision to get used to considered that the crew has actually educated as a workers of 4," said Acaba. "I possess miraculous peace of mind in each our team, that have actually been actually excellent throughout instruction for the goal. Zena and Stephanie will certainly continue to assist their crewmates in front of launch, and also they show what it indicates to become a professional rocketeer.".The agency is going to discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when readily available." I am heavily pleased with our entire staff," mentioned Cardman, "and I am certain Nick as well as Alex will certainly enter their parts with distinction. All four of us stay devoted to the success of this particular purpose, as well as Stephanie and I look forward to flighting when the amount of time is right.".Wilson included, "I understand Nick and Alex are going to do a great work with their work aboard the International Space Station as portion of Trip 72.".With 203 times visited space, this will definitely be Hague's third launch and second objective to the orbiting laboratory. In the course of his 1st launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer failure, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also risk-free touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months eventually, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and acted as a tour developer aboard the space station during the course of Explorations 59 and 60. Hague performed 3 spacewalks to update spaceport station power bodies and also put up a docking adapter for office space probe. An active-duty colonel in the USA Space Pressure, Hague completed a developmental rotation at the Defense Team, as well as worked as the Room Force's supervisor of exam and also evaluation coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to obligations at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner System till this tour project. Observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will be actually Gorbunov's 1st vacation to room and the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he studied design along with qualifications in space capsule as well as upper stages from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Gorbunov earned a degree coming from the armed forces team along with a specialty in operating and also restoring plane, choppers, and plane engines. Prior to his collection as an astronaut in 2018, he operated as a designer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia as well as supported payload space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Expedition 72 team aboard the terminal. They will join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner performing scientific research study and servicing activities in to the terminal's 24th year of constant individual presence.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station study and also procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Josh Finch/ Jimi RussellHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ james.j.russell@nasa.gov.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.