.Publisher's details: This release was actually updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to improve Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as an objective expert. It was improved once again to improve a launch date.NASA astronaut Nick Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, previously introduced as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a future mission..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to fly to the spaceport station as commander as well as purpose expert, respectively, as aspect of a two-crew tour aboard a SpaceX Monster.The improved workers supplement adheres to NASA's decision to come back the organization's Boeing Staff Flight Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with 2 deserted chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to pilot home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to flight Hague was actually created through NASA principal astronaut Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba needed to harmonize flying a NASA workers participant along with previous spaceflight experience to regulate the trip, while guaranteeing NASA keeps an incorporated staff along with a Roscosmos astronaut that can easily function their important devices for carried on, secure station operations." While we have actually modified staff prior to for a range of main reasons, scaling down staff for this tour was yet another tough choice to adapt to considered that the staff has actually trained as a staff of four," said Acaba. "I have miraculous assurance in every our workers, that have been actually excellent throughout training for the mission. Zena and also Stephanie will definitely remain to aid their crewmates ahead of launch, and also they embody what it implies to become a qualified astronaut.".The agency will certainly share reassignment information for Cardman and Wilson when available." I am profoundly happy with our whole team," claimed Cardman, "as well as I am actually certain Nick and Alex will definitely enter their jobs along with superiority. All 4 of us continue to be specialized to the effectiveness of this purpose, and also Stephanie and also I anticipate flying when the moment is right.".Wilson added, "I understand Nick as well as Alex are going to perform a great task with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Exploration 72.".With 203 days visited room, this will definitely be actually Hague's 3rd launch and 2nd purpose to the orbiting lab. During his first launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster breakdown, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as safe landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months eventually, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and served as a flight developer aboard the spaceport station in the course of Explorations 59 and also 60. Hague performed three spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station power devices and also put in a docking adapter for industrial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Space Pressure, Hague finished a developmental turning at the Self defense Department, and served as the Space Power's director of exam and also examination coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed roles at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner Program up until this trip assignment. Adhere To @astrohague on X and Instagram.This are going to be Gorbunov's very first vacation to area and the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he examined design with credentials in spacecraft and also upper stages from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov got a degree from the army department with a specialty in operating as well as restoring plane, helicopters, as well as aircraft motors. Just before his option as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as an engineer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia and assisted freight spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will become members of the Expedition 72 staff aboard the station. They will sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner administering clinical investigation and routine maintenance activities into the terminal's 24th year of continual human visibility.Find out more about International Spaceport station analysis as well as procedures 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.