.Publisher's details: This launch was updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to repair Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as a purpose professional. It was updated once again to remedy a launch time.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, recently declared as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a future purpose..Hague and Gorbunov will flight to the spaceport station as leader as well as objective professional, respectively, as portion of a two-crew member trip aboard a SpaceX Monster.The updated crew complement adheres to NASA's decision to return the organization's Boeing Workers Air travel Examination uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with pair of unoccupied seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will flight home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to flight Hague was actually created by NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba must stabilize flying a NASA workers member along with previous spaceflight expertise to influence the flight, while making sure NASA keeps an incorporated staff with a Roscosmos astronaut that can easily operate their crucial devices for continued, secure terminal functions." While our experts've altered workers prior to for an assortment of explanations, scaling down team for this trip was one more difficult choice to adjust to considered that the team has educated as a crew of four," pointed out Acaba. "I possess the utmost peace of mind in all our workers, who have been great throughout instruction for the objective. Zena and Stephanie will remain to assist their crewmates ahead of launch, and also they exhibit what it suggests to become a qualified astronaut.".The firm will share reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when readily available." I am heavily proud of our whole crew," stated Cardman, "and also I am actually confident Chip and also Alex are going to step into their roles with excellence. All 4 people continue to be committed to the excellence of this mission, and also Stephanie and also I anticipate flighting when the moment is right.".Wilson added, "I understand Chip as well as Alex will definitely perform a wonderful project along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 times logged in room, this will be actually Hague's 3rd launch and 2nd purpose to the orbiting lab. Throughout his 1st launch in Oct 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failing, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and acted as a tour engineer aboard the space station during Trips 59 and also 60. Hague administered three spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station electrical power systems and also put up a docking adapter for commercial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the USA Room Pressure, Hague finished a developmental turning at the Self defense Team, and worked as the Room Power's director of test as well as assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed roles at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner System until this flight task. Adhere To @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will definitely be Gorbunov's very first vacation to room and also the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he studied design with qualifications in spacecraft and also upper phases from the Moscow Flying Principle. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the military department along with a specialized in operating and also fixing airplane, choppers, and plane engines. Before his collection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he worked as a developer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia as well as assisted freight spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will become members of the Expedition 72 team aboard the terminal. They are going to join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner performing medical analysis and also routine maintenance tasks in to the terminal's 24th year of continual individual existence.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station analysis as well as operations 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.