.Editor's note: This release was updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to improve Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as a goal expert. It was upgraded again to deal with a launch date.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, recently revealed as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague and also Gorbunov will fly to the space station as leader and also objective specialist, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew member tour aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded workers enhance observes NASA's decision to return the agency's Boeing Workers Tour Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with pair of abandoned seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will take flight home along with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to pilot Hague was made through NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba had to stabilize piloting a NASA crew member along with previous spaceflight expertise to control the air travel, while making certain NASA keeps an incorporated staff along with a Roscosmos astronaut that can run their crucial systems for proceeded, secure terminal functions." While we've transformed workers just before for a selection of explanations, scaling down crew for this air travel was an additional tough selection to adapt to considered that the workers has actually educated as a team of 4," pointed out Acaba. "I possess the utmost confidence in each our staff, that have actually been actually outstanding throughout instruction for the objective. Zena as well as Stephanie will definitely remain to support their crewmates ahead of launch, as well as they embody what it means to become a professional rocketeer.".The agency is going to discuss reassignment details for Cardman and also Wilson when accessible." I am deeply happy with our entire crew," pointed out Cardman, "and I am positive Scar and also Alex are going to enter their roles with quality. All 4 of us continue to be devoted to the excellence of this mission, and Stephanie and I eagerly anticipate taking flight when the amount of time corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I understand Nick as well as Alex will definitely perform an excellent job along with their work aboard the International Space Station as part of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 times visited space, this will definitely be actually Hague's third launch as well as 2nd purpose to the orbiting research laboratory. During his first launch in Oct 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and safe landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months eventually, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as served as a tour developer aboard the space station during Expeditions 59 as well as 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station electrical power bodies as well as put in a docking adapter for office space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Space Force, Hague finished a developing turning at the Protection Division, and also acted as the Room Power's supervisor of examination and also examination from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to tasks at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner Course up until this tour project. Observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will definitely be Gorbunov's very first excursion to space and the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he examined engineering along with qualifications in space probe and higher phases coming from the Moscow Aeronautics Institute. Gorbunov got a degree from the armed forces team with a specialized in operating and mending airplane, choppers, and airplane engines. Prior to his selection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as an engineer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia as well as sustained freight spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will become members of the Expedition 72 staff aboard the station. They will definitely sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner conducting scientific study and maintenance activities in to the station's 24th year of constant human existence.Find out more concerning International Space Station analysis 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.