.Publisher's details: This release was updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to remedy Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as a purpose specialist. It was upgraded again to improve a launch time.NASA astronaut Chip Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, formerly announced as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a future mission..Hague and Gorbunov will fly to the spaceport station as leader as well as objective expert, specifically, as component of a two-crew element air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated crew supplement complies with NASA's selection to return the company's Boeing Team Air travel Exam uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 along with pair of uninhabited seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, who introduced aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to flight home along with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to flight Hague was made by NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba must balance taking flight a NASA team participant along with previous spaceflight expertise to influence the flight, while ensuring NASA preserves an integrated workers with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can operate their critical units for continued, secure station operations." While we have actually transformed workers just before for an assortment of reasons, scaling down workers for this tour was actually an additional challenging selection to get used to dued to the fact that the crew has actually educated as a team of 4," said Acaba. "I possess miraculous assurance in each our team, who have been actually outstanding throughout instruction for the goal. Zena and Stephanie are going to continue to aid their crewmates in front of launch, as well as they exhibit what it indicates to be an expert rocketeer.".The organization will share reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when available." I am deeply proud of our whole crew," mentioned Cardman, "as well as I am actually certain Scar and Alex are going to enter their parts with excellence. All 4 of us stay devoted to the results of this particular purpose, and also Stephanie as well as I anticipate piloting when the amount of time is right.".Wilson included, "I understand Nick and also Alex will definitely perform a wonderful task along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as component of Exploration 72.".With 203 times visited area, this will certainly be actually Hague's third launch as well as second goal to the orbiting laboratory. Throughout his 1st launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer failing, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months later on, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also served as an air travel designer aboard the space station throughout Trips 59 and 60. Hague administered 3 spacewalks to improve spaceport station electrical power units as well as mount a docking adapter for commercial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the USA Space Pressure, Hague accomplished a developmental rotation at the Self defense Team, and also served as the Space Force's director of exam as well as assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to roles at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner Plan up until this trip task. Comply With @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will definitely be actually Gorbunov's initial trip to space and the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he studied engineering along with certifications in spacecraft as well as upper stages from the Moscow Aeronautics Institute. Gorbunov finished coming from the army department along with a specialized in operating as well as fixing airplane, helicopters, and also airplane engines. Before his choice as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as a designer for Rocket Room Corp. Energia as well as supported packages spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will enter of the Trip 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will definitely participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner conducting medical study as well as servicing tasks into the station's 24th year of constant individual visibility.Find out more concerning International Spaceport station analysis 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.