.Editor's details: This release was actually updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to improve Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as a purpose expert. It was updated once again to remedy a launch day.NASA rocketeer Chip Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, recently declared as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a future goal..Hague as well as Gorbunov are going to pilot to the spaceport station as leader and purpose professional, respectively, as aspect of a two-crew member air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved staff complement adheres to NASA's decision to come back the organization's Boeing Staff Flight Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with 2 unoccupied chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, will take flight home along with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to take flight Hague was actually created by NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba must harmonize flying a NASA workers member with previous spaceflight experience to influence the flight, while guaranteeing NASA keeps an incorporated crew along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can easily run their important bodies for proceeded, safe terminal procedures." While we've transformed staff just before for an assortment of explanations, scaling down workers for this flight was one more hard choice to adjust to considered that the staff has actually qualified as a workers of 4," stated Acaba. "I possess miraculous self-confidence in every our staff, that have actually been actually exceptional throughout training for the purpose. Zena as well as Stephanie will definitely remain to aid their crewmates ahead of launch, as well as they exemplify what it implies to become a specialist rocketeer.".The agency will certainly share reassignment information for Cardman and also Wilson when available." I am actually greatly proud of our whole team," claimed Cardman, "and I am actually self-assured Chip and also Alex will definitely enter their parts with superiority. All four people stay dedicated to the effectiveness of this mission, and also Stephanie and I expect taking flight when the amount of time is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I know Scar as well as Alex will certainly do an excellent project along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as component of Trip 72.".With 203 days visited area, this will definitely be actually Hague's third launch and 2nd objective to the orbiting research laboratory. Throughout his first launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failing, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and functioned as a trip engineer aboard the spaceport station in the course of Explorations 59 and also 60. Hague administered three spacewalks to update space station electrical power systems as well as put up a docking adapter for business space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the USA Room Force, Hague finished a developmental turning at the Protection Department, as well as acted as the Area Power's supervisor of examination as well as assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed tasks at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner Course till this air travel assignment. Follow @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will be Gorbunov's very first travel to space and also the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he researched design with credentials in space capsule as well as higher phases from the Moscow Flying Principle. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the armed forces department along with a specialized in operating and mending plane, choppers, and airplane engines. Prior to his selection as an astronaut in 2018, he functioned as a designer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia as well as assisted cargo space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will enter of the Trip 72 staff aboard the terminal. They are going to participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner performing clinical research and routine maintenance activities into the station's 24th year of ongoing individual presence.Learn more about International Space Station research as well as operations 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.