.Editor's details: This launch was actually updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to repair Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's part as a purpose expert. It was improved again to fix a launch date.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, previously announced as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a future goal..Hague and Gorbunov will flight to the space station as leader and mission expert, specifically, as part of a two-crew air travel aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded crew enhance observes NASA's choice to come back the company's Boeing Crew Trip Test uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 with 2 unoccupied chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who introduced aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, are going to pilot home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to pilot Hague was actually made by NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba had to harmonize piloting a NASA workers member with previous spaceflight expertise to command the air travel, while making certain NASA preserves an integrated workers along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who may run their important bodies for carried on, secure station operations." While we have actually modified staff before for a range of factors, scaling down team for this tour was actually one more difficult selection to adjust to given that the staff has taught as a team of four," said Acaba. "I possess miraculous assurance in all our staff, who have actually been excellent throughout training for the mission. Zena and Stephanie will definitely continue to assist their crewmates in front of launch, as well as they embody what it implies to become a specialist rocketeer.".The organization will definitely share reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when offered." I am actually greatly pleased with our whole entire team," claimed Cardman, "and also I am actually certain Chip as well as Alex are going to enter their jobs along with excellence. All four people continue to be specialized to the results of the objective, as well as Stephanie and also I eagerly anticipate flying when the moment corrects.".Wilson added, "I know Scar as well as Alex will perform a terrific job along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as part of Expedition 72.".With 203 days logged in space, this will definitely be actually Hague's 3rd launch and second objective to the orbiting research laboratory. Throughout his very first launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer failing, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also secure landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months later, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and acted as a tour developer aboard the spaceport station during the course of Expeditions 59 as well as 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to upgrade space station energy bodies as well as set up a docking adapter for business space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Space Pressure, Hague accomplished a developmental turning at the Self defense Team, and acted as the Space Power's supervisor of test and also evaluation from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to duties at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Course up until this tour project. Observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will definitely be Gorbunov's 1st travel to space and the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he researched engineering with qualifications in space probe and also higher stages from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the military team along with a specialty in operating and also fixing aircraft, choppers, and plane motors. Prior to his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as a designer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia and assisted packages space probe launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Trip 72 team aboard the terminal. They will certainly join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner carrying out clinical study and servicing activities in to the station's 24th year of constant human existence.Find out more about International Spaceport station study 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.