.Publisher's keep in mind: This launch was actually upgraded two times on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to correct Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as a purpose expert. It was actually improved once again to improve a launch date.NASA astronaut Nick Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, recently declared as crewmates, are actually entitled for reassignment on a future objective..Hague as well as Gorbunov will take flight to the space station as leader and also objective specialist, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew element trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated staff complement follows NASA's selection to return the agency's Boeing Workers Trip Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with two vacant seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, who introduced aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to flight home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to fly Hague was actually made through NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba needed to stabilize flying a NASA staff participant with previous spaceflight experience to command the tour, while making certain NASA maintains an integrated team with a Roscosmos astronaut that may operate their essential bodies for proceeded, secure terminal functions." While our team've altered team just before for a wide array of factors, downsizing team for this trip was one more hard choice to adapt to given that the team has qualified as a staff of 4," said Acaba. "I have the utmost self-confidence with all our team, who have been actually great throughout training for the goal. Zena and Stephanie will remain to aid their crewmates in front of launch, and they display what it implies to be an expert rocketeer.".The organization will discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman as well as Wilson when accessible." I am actually heavily pleased with our whole entire staff," pointed out Cardman, "and also I am actually self-assured Chip and Alex will enter their roles with superiority. All 4 of us remain devoted to the success of the purpose, and also Stephanie and also I look forward to taking flight when the time is right.".Wilson added, "I recognize Nick as well as Alex will do a wonderful task along with their work aboard the International Space Station as portion of Exploration 72.".With 203 days logged in space, this will certainly be Hague's third launch and also second mission to the orbiting lab. During the course of his first launch in October 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months later on, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as served as a flight developer aboard the spaceport station during the course of Explorations 59 as well as 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station energy systems and also put up a docking adapter for business spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the united state Space Power, Hague finished a developmental rotation at the Self defense Division, and also functioned as the Area Pressure's supervisor of test as well as examination from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to tasks at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Plan until this flight project. Observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will certainly be actually Gorbunov's very first vacation to space as well as the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he analyzed engineering along with credentials in space probe and also upper phases coming from the Moscow Aeronautics Principle. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the military team along with a specialized in operating and repairing aircraft, choppers, and also aircraft engines. Prior to his option as an astronaut in 2018, he operated as a designer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia as well as supported payload spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov are going to enter of the Expedition 72 staff aboard the station. They will sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner carrying out scientific research study and also upkeep tasks in to the terminal's 24th year of continuous human presence.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station investigation as well as procedures 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.