.Editor's details: This release was updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to deal with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's part as a goal specialist. It was actually upgraded once more to deal with a launch day.NASA astronaut Chip Hague as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, recently declared as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a potential objective..Hague as well as Gorbunov will flight to the space station as leader as well as objective specialist, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew element flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved team enhance complies with NASA's choice to return the firm's Boeing Crew Tour Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with 2 uninhabited chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that released aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will pilot home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to take flight Hague was actually made by NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Acaba must harmonize piloting a NASA crew participant with previous spaceflight experience to command the trip, while making certain NASA sustains an integrated workers with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can easily work their essential devices for carried on, secure terminal functions." While our company have actually changed crew just before for a wide array of reasons, downsizing workers for this tour was actually an additional hard choice to adapt to considered that the workers has actually trained as a crew of four," stated Acaba. "I have the utmost assurance with all our crew, that have actually been exceptional throughout instruction for the purpose. Zena as well as Stephanie will remain to support their crewmates before launch, and they exemplify what it indicates to be an expert rocketeer.".The company will share reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when offered." I am actually heavily happy with our whole team," stated Cardman, "as well as I am confident Chip as well as Alex are going to step into their duties with superiority. All 4 of us remain specialized to the excellence of the goal, as well as Stephanie and I await flighting when the moment corrects.".Wilson included, "I know Nick and also Alex will certainly do an excellent job along with their job aboard the International Space Station as portion of Expedition 72.".With 203 times logged in area, this will certainly be actually Hague's third launch as well as second purpose to the orbiting lab. During his initial launch in Oct 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failure, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months eventually, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also functioned as a trip designer aboard the spaceport station throughout Expeditions 59 and also 60. Hague carried out three spacewalks to improve space station power devices and also put in a docking adapter for commercial space probe. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Area Force, Hague finished a developing rotation at the Protection Division, and also acted as the Space Pressure's director of exam as well as assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to roles at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Plan up until this air travel project. Observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's very first trip to area as well as the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he studied engineering with certifications in space probe and also top phases from the Moscow Aeronautics Principle. Gorbunov earned a degree coming from the armed forces team with a specialized in operating as well as restoring plane, helicopters, as well as airplane engines. Before his option as an astronaut in 2018, he operated as an engineer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia and sustained cargo spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov are going to enter of the Expedition 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner performing clinical study and also maintenance activities in to the station's 24th year of constant individual presence.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station investigation and also 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.