.Publisher's details: This release was improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to improve Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's function as a goal professional. It was updated once again to improve a launch date.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, recently introduced as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a potential mission..Hague as well as Gorbunov will flight to the spaceport station as leader as well as purpose expert, specifically, as component of a two-crew element trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded workers enhance complies with NASA's choice to return the firm's Boeing Crew Flight Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with two abandoned chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that released aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to take flight home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to flight Hague was made through NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba needed to harmonize flying a NASA workers participant with previous spaceflight adventure to influence the flight, while making certain NASA sustains an incorporated crew along with a Roscosmos astronaut who may work their important units for proceeded, secure terminal procedures." While we have actually altered crew before for an assortment of explanations, downsizing staff for this trip was actually one more hard selection to get used to considered that the team has actually trained as a workers of 4," pointed out Acaba. "I have the utmost assurance in all our crew, who have been actually great throughout training for the mission. Zena as well as Stephanie will certainly remain to help their crewmates in front of launch, and they exemplify what it means to be a qualified astronaut.".The organization will certainly share reassignment particulars for Cardman as well as Wilson when on call." I am greatly happy with our whole staff," mentioned Cardman, "and also I am actually confident Chip as well as Alex will definitely enter their parts with excellence. All four of us remain committed to the results of this particular objective, and also Stephanie as well as I await piloting when the amount of time is right.".Wilson added, "I understand Nick and also Alex will perform a fantastic project with their job aboard the International Space Station as component of Expedition 72.".With 203 days logged in space, this will be Hague's 3rd launch as well as 2nd mission to the orbiting lab. Throughout his initial launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer failure, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also risk-free touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months eventually, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also acted as a tour engineer aboard the space station throughout Expeditions 59 and also 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to upgrade space station energy bodies as well as set up a docking adapter for office spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the united state Space Force, Hague completed a developmental rotation at the Protection Department, as well as served as the Space Force's director of exam and evaluation from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to responsibilities at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner System till this tour task. Adhere To @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This are going to be Gorbunov's very first trip to space and the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he examined engineering with certifications in space capsule as well as top phases coming from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov graduated coming from the army department with a specialized in operating and also fixing airplane, helicopters, and also aircraft engines. Before his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as a developer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia as well as sustained cargo space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov are going to enter of the Trip 72 team aboard the terminal. They are going to join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner administering medical research and servicing tasks in to the station's 24th year of continual individual presence.Learn more concerning International Space 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.