.Publisher's details: This release was actually upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to repair Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as an objective specialist. It was improved once again to repair a launch date.NASA astronaut Chip Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, earlier declared as crewmates, are actually entitled for reassignment on a potential mission..Hague as well as Gorbunov are going to fly to the space station as commander and mission expert, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew element trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved staff enhance observes NASA's choice to return the firm's Boeing Workers Flight Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with 2 deserted seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, who introduced aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to fly home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to take flight Hague was created through NASA principal astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba had to harmonize flying a NASA workers participant with previous spaceflight adventure to command the trip, while guaranteeing NASA sustains an integrated staff with a Roscosmos astronaut that may operate their essential bodies for proceeded, risk-free terminal functions." While our company have actually altered staff before for a variety of causes, scaling down workers for this air travel was yet another tough choice to get used to given that the workers has taught as a workers of four," said Acaba. "I possess the utmost peace of mind with all our team, that have actually been actually excellent throughout instruction for the goal. Zena and Stephanie will definitely remain to help their crewmates in advance of launch, and also they embody what it implies to become a professional rocketeer.".The firm will definitely share reassignment information for Cardman and also Wilson when readily available." I am profoundly happy with our whole entire crew," stated Cardman, "and also I am certain Nick as well as Alex are going to step into their roles with excellence. All 4 people stay specialized to the excellence of this particular objective, as well as Stephanie and I eagerly anticipate piloting when the amount of time is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I know Chip as well as Alex will definitely do a great project along with their job aboard the International Space Station as portion of Trip 72.".Along with 203 days logged in space, this will certainly be actually Hague's third launch and second mission to the orbiting research laboratory. During his 1st launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failure, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months later, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as served as a flight engineer aboard the spaceport station during Explorations 59 and 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station electrical power units as well as mount a docking adapter for commercial space probe. An active-duty colonel in the USA Space Pressure, Hague finished a developing turning at the Self defense Department, as well as worked as the Room Force's director of test and also analysis from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to roles at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Plan up until this flight project. Observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's first travel to space and also the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he analyzed engineering along with qualifications in spacecraft and also higher stages coming from the Moscow Flying Principle. Gorbunov graduated coming from the army team with a specialty in operating as well as mending plane, helicopters, and also plane engines. Before his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as a designer for Rocket Room Corp. Energia as well as sustained payload space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will certainly join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner conducting scientific study and maintenance tasks in to the terminal's 24th year of continuous human existence.Discover more about International Spaceport station analysis and functions 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.