.Editor's keep in mind: This release was improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to improve Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as a purpose specialist. It was updated once more to remedy a launch time.NASA astronaut Nick Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, previously revealed as crewmates, are actually entitled for reassignment on a future purpose..Hague and Gorbunov are going to take flight to the spaceport station as commander and objective professional, specifically, as part of a two-crew element air travel aboard a SpaceX Monster.The updated team supplement observes NASA's decision to come back the company's Boeing Staff Tour Exam uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with 2 vacant chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that released aboard the Starliner space probe in June, will flight home along with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to take flight Hague was actually made through NASA principal astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Acaba needed to balance flying a NASA team participant along with previous spaceflight knowledge to control the flight, while making sure NASA sustains an incorporated staff along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can easily operate their important units for continued, safe station functions." While our experts've transformed workers prior to for a wide array of reasons, downsizing team for this trip was actually an additional tough decision to get used to considered that the workers has actually educated as a workers of four," pointed out Acaba. "I have miraculous peace of mind with all our workers, that have actually been exceptional throughout training for the goal. Zena and Stephanie will certainly remain to assist their crewmates in front of launch, as well as they embody what it implies to become a professional astronaut.".The organization will certainly discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when available." I am deeply happy with our entire crew," claimed Cardman, "and also I am actually confident Scar and also Alex are going to step into their parts along with excellence. All 4 people stay committed to the success of this objective, and Stephanie and I expect taking flight when the time is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I recognize Scar and also Alex will certainly perform a fantastic task with their job aboard the International Space Station as aspect of Expedition 72.".With 203 times visited space, this will be Hague's third launch as well as second objective to the orbiting laboratory. During the course of his initial launch in October 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer failure, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as served as an air travel designer aboard the spaceport station during the course of Trips 59 and also 60. Hague administered three spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station power units as well as put in a docking adapter for commercial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Room Pressure, Hague finished a developmental rotation at the Defense Division, and acted as the Room Power's director of examination and examination from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to obligations at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner Program till this air travel task. Observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will certainly be actually Gorbunov's initial trip to room and the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he researched engineering with qualifications in spacecraft and also upper stages coming from the Moscow Flying Principle. Gorbunov got a degree from the army department along with a specialty in operating and also repairing plane, helicopters, and also airplane engines. Before his option as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as a developer for Spacecraft Area Corp. Energia and sustained packages spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the station. They will definitely sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner conducting medical research study and servicing tasks into the terminal's 24th year of continual individual existence.Find out more regarding International Spaceport station research study 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.