.Editor's keep in mind: This release was improved two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to fix Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's part as a mission specialist. It was improved again to correct a launch day.NASA astronaut Nick Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, earlier introduced as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a future goal..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to fly to the spaceport station as commander and objective specialist, specifically, as portion of a two-crew member tour aboard a SpaceX Monster.The updated crew enhance adheres to NASA's selection to come back the agency's Boeing Staff Flight Examination uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with 2 uninhabited seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to flight home along with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to flight Hague was actually made through NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to balance flying a NASA workers member along with previous spaceflight adventure to influence the trip, while making certain NASA sustains an incorporated team along with a Roscosmos astronaut that can easily work their important systems for continued, safe terminal procedures." While our team have actually altered workers prior to for a selection of main reasons, scaling down workers for this trip was an additional hard selection to adapt to considered that the team has actually educated as a staff of 4," mentioned Acaba. "I have miraculous confidence with all our staff, that have actually been actually exceptional throughout training for the mission. Zena as well as Stephanie will continue to support their crewmates in advance of launch, and also they show what it means to become a specialist rocketeer.".The company will definitely discuss reassignment information for Cardman and also Wilson when on call." I am deeply happy with our whole entire team," claimed Cardman, "and also I am positive Chip as well as Alex will definitely step into their jobs along with distinction. All four people stay committed to the excellence of this objective, as well as Stephanie as well as I expect piloting when the moment is right.".Wilson added, "I know Chip and also Alex will certainly do a great task along with their job aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72.".With 203 times visited space, this will certainly be actually Hague's 3rd launch and second purpose to the orbiting lab. Throughout his very first launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failing, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. Five months later on, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and served as a trip engineer aboard the spaceport station during the course of Explorations 59 and also 60. Hague administered three spacewalks to improve space station power units and also mount a docking adapter for office spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Space Power, Hague accomplished a developmental rotation at the Defense Department, as well as acted as the Room Force's director of test and analysis from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed obligations at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner System up until this air travel assignment. Observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will definitely be actually Gorbunov's first travel to space and the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he examined engineering along with certifications in space capsule and also higher stages from the Moscow Flying Institute. Gorbunov earned a degree from the armed forces department with a specialty in operating as well as repairing aircraft, helicopters, and airplane motors. Prior to his variety as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as a designer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia and supported packages space probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Exploration 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner administering scientific study as well as maintenance activities into the terminal's 24th year of continuous individual visibility.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station research 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.