.Editor's details: This launch was improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to correct Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's part as a mission specialist. It was updated once again to correct a launch date.NASA rocketeer Chip Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, formerly declared as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a future purpose..Hague and also Gorbunov will fly to the space station as commander as well as purpose expert, respectively, as portion of a two-crew member tour aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved staff enhance adheres to NASA's choice to return the company's Boeing Crew Tour Test uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 with pair of uninhabited seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will flight home along with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to take flight Hague was made through NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Acaba must harmonize flighting a NASA workers member with previous spaceflight adventure to regulate the tour, while ensuring NASA preserves an incorporated crew with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can function their vital systems for carried on, secure terminal procedures." While our company have actually transformed workers before for a wide array of main reasons, scaling down crew for this air travel was actually one more tough selection to adjust to given that the team has actually taught as a team of four," claimed Acaba. "I possess miraculous peace of mind with all our team, that have been actually excellent throughout instruction for the purpose. Zena and Stephanie are going to remain to assist their crewmates in advance of launch, and also they display what it means to be an expert astronaut.".The company will definitely share reassignment details for Cardman as well as Wilson when available." I am actually heavily pleased with our entire crew," said Cardman, "and also I am actually self-assured Nick and Alex are going to step into their functions with quality. All four people continue to be committed to the results of this goal, as well as Stephanie and also I expect flighting when the time corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I recognize Chip and also Alex will perform a great project with their job aboard the International Space Station as portion of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 days logged in space, this will definitely be actually Hague's 3rd launch as well as 2nd objective to the orbiting laboratory. Throughout his 1st launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and risk-free touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. Five months later on, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as acted as a trip developer aboard the spaceport station during Trips 59 as well as 60. Hague conducted 3 spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station electrical power units and install a docking adapter for business spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the united state Space Power, Hague completed a developing turning at the Defense Division, and also functioned as the Area Power's director of exam and assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to duties at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Course till this trip project. Adhere To @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will certainly be actually Gorbunov's first trip to room and the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he studied design along with credentials in spacecraft and top phases coming from the Moscow Aeronautics Institute. Gorbunov got a degree from the military department with a specialty in operating as well as restoring airplane, choppers, and also aircraft engines. Just before his selection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he worked as a designer for Rocket Room Corp. Energia and also supported freight space probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the terminal. They will join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner performing clinical analysis as well as servicing tasks into the station's 24th year of continuous human existence.Discover more concerning 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.