.Editor's details: This release was actually upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to fix Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as an objective professional. It was actually updated once again to fix a launch time.NASA astronaut Nick Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, earlier declared as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a future objective..Hague and Gorbunov will flight to the space station as leader as well as objective specialist, respectively, as component of a two-crew tour aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved workers supplement adheres to NASA's choice to come back the firm's Boeing Team Flight Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with pair of empty seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will flight home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to fly Hague was created by NASA principal astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to balance flighting a NASA workers participant with previous spaceflight expertise to influence the air travel, while making sure NASA keeps an incorporated staff along with a Roscosmos astronaut that may work their critical bodies for continued, secure station procedures." While our team've changed staff just before for a range of main reasons, scaling down staff for this air travel was actually another challenging selection to get used to considered that the team has qualified as a team of four," stated Acaba. "I have the utmost peace of mind in all our team, that have actually been actually exceptional throughout instruction for the objective. Zena and Stephanie will continue to support their crewmates before launch, as well as they exemplify what it indicates to be a specialist rocketeer.".The organization will definitely discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman as well as Wilson when offered." I am actually heavily happy with our whole entire workers," pointed out Cardman, "and also I am actually certain Scar as well as Alex are going to enter their duties along with distinction. All four of us remain devoted to the excellence of this mission, as well as Stephanie as well as I eagerly anticipate taking flight when the time corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I know Nick and also Alex will carry out a terrific project with their job aboard the International Space Station as part of Trip 72.".Along with 203 times logged in area, this will certainly be actually Hague's 3rd launch and also 2nd mission to the orbiting lab. During the course of his initial launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. Five months eventually, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as served as a tour developer aboard the space station during the course of Trips 59 and 60. Hague conducted 3 spacewalks to improve space station electrical power bodies as well as put up a docking adapter for office space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Room Force, Hague completed a developmental turning at the Self defense Division, as well as worked as the Space Force's supervisor of exam as well as examination from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed obligations at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner System until this air travel assignment. Observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's first excursion to room as well as the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he researched design with credentials in space probe and also higher stages coming from the Moscow Flying Principle. Gorbunov graduated coming from the armed forces team along with a specialty in operating and also mending airplane, helicopters, and also plane motors. Just before his selection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he worked as a designer for Spacecraft Area Corp. Energia as well as supported cargo space probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov are going to enter of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the terminal. They will certainly join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner administering clinical study and maintenance activities in to the terminal's 24th year of ongoing human visibility.Find out more regarding International Spaceport station research study and 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.