.Publisher's note: This launch was actually updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to fix Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as a goal professional. It was improved once more to deal with a launch date.NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, recently revealed as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a potential goal..Hague and Gorbunov are going to flight to the spaceport station as leader and mission expert, respectively, as portion of a two-crew air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated crew enhance adheres to NASA's decision to return the organization's Boeing Team Air travel Exam uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with pair of uninhabited seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will pilot home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to take flight Hague was actually created by NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba had to balance flighting a NASA staff participant along with previous spaceflight knowledge to command the flight, while making sure NASA sustains an integrated staff along with a Roscosmos astronaut that can easily work their important units for carried on, safe terminal functions." While we have actually modified staff just before for a wide array of main reasons, downsizing workers for this air travel was actually an additional difficult selection to get used to given that the staff has actually trained as a crew of four," stated Acaba. "I have miraculous assurance in each our workers, that have been actually great throughout instruction for the purpose. Zena and also Stephanie will remain to help their crewmates in advance of launch, and they embody what it indicates to be an expert rocketeer.".The organization is going to discuss reassignment information for Cardman as well as Wilson when offered." I am actually heavily pleased with our whole team," claimed Cardman, "and also I am actually positive Chip and also Alex will certainly step into their parts with superiority. All 4 of us remain committed to the effectiveness of this particular goal, and also Stephanie and I await piloting when the moment corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I know Nick and Alex will definitely do a wonderful work with their work aboard the International Space Station as portion of Expedition 72.".With 203 times visited space, this are going to be actually Hague's third launch and also second objective to the orbiting research laboratory. Throughout his very first launch in Oct 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer failure, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and safe landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and served as a tour engineer aboard the spaceport station in the course of Trips 59 and 60. Hague conducted three spacewalks to improve spaceport station electrical power devices and set up a docking adapter for business space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Area Power, Hague completed a developing turning at the Defense Division, and also functioned as the Room Pressure's director of test and also evaluation coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to obligations at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner Program till this air travel assignment. Comply With @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will certainly be actually Gorbunov's first journey to room as well as the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he examined engineering along with qualifications in spacecraft and also upper phases from the Moscow Flying Institute. Gorbunov graduated coming from the army department along with a specialized in operating and restoring aircraft, choppers, as well as airplane engines. Before his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he worked as an engineer for Rocket Room Corp. Energia and also supported payload spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Trip 72 staff aboard the station. They will participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner performing clinical study and routine maintenance activities into the station's 24th year of continual human existence.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station research study as well as 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.