.Publisher's note: This release was actually upgraded two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to remedy Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's part as an objective expert. It was updated once again to remedy a launch date.NASA astronaut Nick Hague as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, previously declared as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a potential goal..Hague and Gorbunov are going to take flight to the space station as commander and also mission expert, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew trip aboard a SpaceX Monster.The improved crew enhance follows NASA's decision to return the company's Boeing Workers Trip Examination uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with two unoccupied chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to pilot home along with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to pilot Hague was made by NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba had to stabilize taking flight a NASA crew member along with previous spaceflight experience to regulate the air travel, while making sure NASA preserves an integrated workers with a Roscosmos astronaut who can easily work their vital units for carried on, safe station procedures." While our team've changed crew before for a range of causes, scaling down staff for this air travel was actually another difficult choice to adjust to considered that the workers has actually taught as a workers of four," stated Acaba. "I possess the utmost assurance in all our crew, that have actually been actually outstanding throughout instruction for the objective. Zena as well as Stephanie will definitely remain to aid their crewmates in advance of launch, and also they exemplify what it implies to be a professional rocketeer.".The company will definitely share reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when on call." I am heavily pleased with our whole entire crew," mentioned Cardman, "as well as I am self-assured Chip and also Alex will enter their duties with superiority. All 4 people stay dedicated to the effectiveness of the goal, as well as Stephanie and I expect flighting when the time corrects.".Wilson added, "I understand Chip and Alex will definitely perform a fantastic work with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as part of Trip 72.".Along with 203 times visited space, this are going to be Hague's third launch as well as 2nd goal to the orbiting laboratory. In the course of his first launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster breakdown, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later on, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also worked as an air travel engineer aboard the spaceport station in the course of Trips 59 as well as 60. Hague administered three spacewalks to update spaceport station energy systems as well as install a docking adapter for office space probe. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Pressure, Hague accomplished a developmental rotation at the Defense Department, as well as served as the Area Power's supervisor of exam and analysis from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to tasks at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Course until this air travel project. Observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will definitely be Gorbunov's first trip to room and also the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he analyzed engineering along with credentials in space capsule as well as higher phases from the Moscow Aeronautics Principle. Gorbunov got a degree from the military division along with a specialized in operating and repairing aircraft, helicopters, as well as plane motors. Before his selection as an astronaut in 2018, he functioned as an engineer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia and supported payload spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Exploration 72 team aboard the station. They will sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner carrying out scientific investigation as well as servicing tasks right into the station's 24th year of constant individual existence.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station research study and operations 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.