.Publisher's note: This launch was improved two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to correct Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's part as an objective expert. It was improved once again to improve a launch day.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, previously introduced as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a future purpose..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to pilot to the space station as leader and purpose professional, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved crew complement follows NASA's selection to return the firm's Boeing Team Flight Exam uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with two abandoned chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who introduced aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will pilot home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to flight Hague was actually created by NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba must balance flighting a NASA crew participant with previous spaceflight expertise to command the trip, while making certain NASA preserves an incorporated workers with a Roscosmos astronaut who can easily function their vital systems for carried on, secure station functions." While our company have actually altered team just before for a wide array of reasons, downsizing workers for this flight was actually one more difficult selection to adjust to given that the staff has actually qualified as a team of four," pointed out Acaba. "I possess the utmost peace of mind in every our team, who have actually been actually superb throughout instruction for the objective. Zena and also Stephanie are going to continue to help their crewmates before launch, and they exhibit what it implies to be a qualified rocketeer.".The company will certainly share reassignment information for Cardman as well as Wilson when on call." I am profoundly happy with our whole entire workers," mentioned Cardman, "and also I am actually positive Scar and Alex will certainly step into their tasks with superiority. All 4 of us stay committed to the effectiveness of the mission, as well as Stephanie as well as I look forward to flighting when the amount of time corrects.".Wilson added, "I know Chip as well as Alex will definitely do a terrific project with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 days visited room, this are going to be actually Hague's third launch as well as second goal to the orbiting lab. During his first launch in October 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer failing, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. Five months later on, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as served as a trip engineer aboard the spaceport station throughout Trips 59 and also 60. Hague carried out three spacewalks to update spaceport station power systems and install a docking adapter for industrial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the USA Space Force, Hague finished a developing turning at the Defense Team, and acted as the Area Pressure's director of test and also assessment coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to obligations at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Plan till this flight job. Adhere To @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will be actually Gorbunov's first journey to area and the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he analyzed design along with qualifications in spacecraft as well as higher stages coming from the Moscow Flying Principle. Gorbunov graduated coming from the armed forces division along with a specialty in operating and mending aircraft, choppers, and plane motors. Prior to his option as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as a designer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia and also sustained cargo space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will become members of the Expedition 72 crew aboard the station. They are going to participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner conducting scientific research and also upkeep activities in to the terminal's 24th year of constant individual existence.Find out more about International Spaceport station study 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.