.Editor's note: This release was actually updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to remedy Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a purpose specialist. It was actually improved again to correct a launch day.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, previously announced as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a potential goal..Hague and Gorbunov will fly to the space station as commander as well as mission professional, specifically, as part of a two-crew element trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated staff enhance follows NASA's decision to come back the firm's Boeing Workers Air travel Examination uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with two abandoned chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to take flight home along with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to take flight Hague was made by NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Acaba had to harmonize taking flight a NASA staff participant along with previous spaceflight adventure to regulate the flight, while guaranteeing NASA sustains an integrated workers along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that may run their vital systems for continued, risk-free terminal procedures." While our company've changed team before for a selection of explanations, scaling down team for this trip was an additional tough selection to adapt to considered that the staff has qualified as a crew of four," stated Acaba. "I have the utmost peace of mind in each our staff, who have actually been actually great throughout training for the purpose. Zena and also Stephanie will definitely remain to assist their crewmates ahead of launch, and they exhibit what it indicates to become a qualified astronaut.".The company will share reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when on call." I am profoundly happy with our whole staff," stated Cardman, "and also I am actually certain Scar as well as Alex are going to enter their duties with quality. All 4 of us remain dedicated to the results of this goal, and Stephanie and I eagerly anticipate flying when the amount of time corrects.".Wilson added, "I recognize Scar and Alex will definitely do a wonderful project with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as aspect of Expedition 72.".With 203 days logged in area, this will definitely be Hague's 3rd launch as well as second goal to the orbiting lab. Throughout his initial launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer breakdown, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later on, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and served as a trip engineer aboard the space station during the course of Expeditions 59 as well as 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to update space station electrical power bodies and put up a docking adapter for business space probe. An active-duty colonel in the USA Area Power, Hague accomplished a developing turning at the Self defense Division, as well as worked as the Area Force's supervisor of examination and also examination from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed roles at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner Program up until this flight assignment. Comply With @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will be Gorbunov's 1st journey to area and the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he researched design with credentials in space capsule and higher phases from the Moscow Aeronautics Institute. Gorbunov earned a degree coming from the military team with a specialized in operating and also mending plane, helicopters, and aircraft engines. Before his option as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as a developer for Rocket Room Corp. Energia and also assisted packages spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to become members of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the station. They will definitely join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner performing medical study and maintenance tasks into the station's 24th year of continuous individual existence.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station analysis and also 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.