.Editor's note: This launch was actually improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to improve Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's function as an objective expert. It was improved again to repair a launch date.NASA astronaut Nick Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, formerly declared as crewmates, are actually entitled for reassignment on a potential mission..Hague and also Gorbunov will pilot to the space station as commander as well as purpose specialist, specifically, as component of a two-crew tour aboard a SpaceX Monster.The improved staff enhance observes NASA's decision to return the organization's Boeing Staff Tour Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with two uninhabited chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will flight home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to take flight Hague was made through NASA chief rocketeer Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba had to stabilize taking flight a NASA workers member with previous spaceflight knowledge to command the air travel, while ensuring NASA preserves an integrated workers with a Roscosmos astronaut who can easily operate their critical systems for proceeded, secure terminal procedures." While we have actually transformed team just before for a range of causes, scaling down crew for this air travel was actually another hard selection to adapt to dued to the fact that the staff has actually qualified as a workers of four," mentioned Acaba. "I have miraculous confidence in all our staff, that have been superb throughout training for the mission. Zena and also Stephanie will certainly remain to assist their crewmates in advance of launch, and also they embody what it suggests to be a qualified rocketeer.".The company will certainly discuss reassignment information for Cardman and Wilson when available." I am greatly happy with our whole entire workers," stated Cardman, "and also I am self-assured Scar as well as Alex are going to step into their tasks along with excellence. All 4 people remain specialized to the excellence of this particular objective, as well as Stephanie and also I eagerly anticipate piloting when the time is right.".Wilson included, "I know Chip and Alex will carry out a wonderful task with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as component of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 days logged in room, this are going to be actually Hague's 3rd launch and also second goal to the orbiting laboratory. In the course of his very first launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer failure, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months later on, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also worked as an air travel engineer aboard the spaceport station during Trips 59 as well as 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station power units and also install a docking adapter for commercial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Force, Hague completed a developing rotation at the Protection Department, and worked as the Area Pressure's director of test and also analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed duties at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner System till this trip task. Adhere To @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will be Gorbunov's initial travel to area as well as the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he analyzed engineering along with qualifications in space probe and also higher phases coming from the Moscow Flying Principle. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the armed forces department along with a specialty in operating and also repairing airplane, helicopters, as well as airplane engines. Before his selection as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as a designer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia and also sustained cargo space probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Trip 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner conducting clinical investigation as well as maintenance tasks into the terminal's 24th year of continual human visibility.Find out more concerning International Spaceport station analysis and also functions 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.