.Editor's note: This release was improved two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to correct Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as an objective specialist. It was updated once again to repair a launch date.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, recently revealed as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a future mission..Hague and also Gorbunov will pilot to the spaceport station as commander and also purpose specialist, specifically, as component of a two-crew element tour aboard a SpaceX Monster.The improved workers supplement adheres to NASA's decision to come back the company's Boeing Team Air travel Exam uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with 2 abandoned seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will fly home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to take flight Hague was created through NASA chief rocketeer Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba must stabilize taking flight a NASA team member along with previous spaceflight knowledge to influence the air travel, while ensuring NASA maintains an integrated workers with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that may operate their crucial systems for proceeded, risk-free station functions." While we have actually altered team before for a selection of causes, scaling down staff for this flight was one more hard selection to adapt to considered that the team has trained as a staff of four," pointed out Acaba. "I have miraculous confidence in every our workers, who have actually been actually excellent throughout instruction for the purpose. Zena and Stephanie are going to continue to assist their crewmates ahead of launch, and also they exemplify what it means to be a professional astronaut.".The company is going to discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when accessible." I am actually deeply proud of our whole crew," said Cardman, "and I am self-assured Nick and Alex will enter their duties along with quality. All four of us continue to be devoted to the results of the mission, and also Stephanie as well as I look forward to taking flight when the moment corrects.".Wilson added, "I recognize Chip and also Alex are going to do an excellent task with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as component of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 days logged in area, this are going to be actually Hague's third launch and also second mission to the orbiting research laboratory. Throughout his very first launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer breakdown, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months later, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and acted as an air travel developer aboard the space station during the course of Explorations 59 and 60. Hague administered three spacewalks to improve spaceport station electrical power bodies and also put up a docking adapter for business space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the USA Space Force, Hague finished a developing turning at the Defense Team, and also worked as the Space Power's director of test and analysis from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed duties at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner System up until this air travel job. Comply With @astrohague on X and Instagram.This are going to be actually Gorbunov's very first excursion to area and the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he researched engineering with credentials in spacecraft and also upper phases coming from the Moscow Flying Principle. Gorbunov earned a degree coming from the military team along with a specialty in operating as well as fixing airplane, choppers, and aircraft motors. Before his collection as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as a developer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia and also assisted payload spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Expedition 72 crew aboard the terminal. They will definitely sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner carrying out clinical investigation and upkeep activities in to the station's 24th year of ongoing human presence.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station study as well as operations 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.