.Publisher's note: This launch was updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to correct Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as an objective specialist. It was actually updated once again to remedy a launch date.NASA rocketeer Chip Hague as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, recently announced as crewmates, are actually entitled for reassignment on a potential mission..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to pilot to the spaceport station as leader and objective expert, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew element flight aboard a SpaceX Monster.The improved team supplement adheres to NASA's decision to come back the firm's Boeing Staff Air travel Exam uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with 2 empty chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to take flight home along with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to pilot Hague was created through NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to stabilize taking flight a NASA crew member along with previous spaceflight adventure to regulate the tour, while making sure NASA preserves an integrated team along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can operate their vital systems for carried on, risk-free station operations." While we've changed staff prior to for a selection of reasons, downsizing crew for this air travel was actually one more difficult selection to get used to given that the staff has actually trained as a staff of 4," claimed Acaba. "I possess miraculous peace of mind in each our team, who have actually been exceptional throughout instruction for the goal. Zena and Stephanie will definitely continue to help their crewmates ahead of launch, as well as they exemplify what it implies to become a professional astronaut.".The firm will certainly share reassignment details for Cardman and also Wilson when available." I am heavily pleased with our whole workers," claimed Cardman, "and I am certain Chip and also Alex will definitely step into their parts along with superiority. All four of us continue to be dedicated to the effectiveness of this objective, and also Stephanie and I await flying when the time corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I recognize Nick and also Alex will carry out a terrific work along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Exploration 72.".With 203 days logged in area, this will be Hague's third launch and also 2nd purpose to the orbiting laboratory. In the course of his very first launch in Oct 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster breakdown, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months later on, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as served as a tour engineer aboard the spaceport station in the course of Trips 59 as well as 60. Hague performed 3 spacewalks to update space station energy units as well as put in a docking adapter for office space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the USA Space Pressure, Hague accomplished a developmental turning at the Protection Team, as well as worked as the Room Pressure's director of examination and also analysis from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to obligations at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner System until this trip project. Adhere To @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This are going to be actually Gorbunov's 1st journey to space as well as the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he studied design with certifications in space probe as well as top phases coming from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov finished coming from the military division along with a specialty in operating as well as fixing airplane, helicopters, as well as plane engines. Before his choice as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as a developer for Rocket Room Corp. Energia and assisted packages space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will become members of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the station. They will participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner conducting medical study and also routine maintenance activities in to the station's 24th year of continual individual presence.Find out more concerning 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.