.Publisher's keep in mind: This release was updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to remedy Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as an objective expert. It was updated again to fix a launch day.NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, previously declared as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a potential objective..Hague and Gorbunov will fly to the space station as leader as well as objective specialist, respectively, as part of a two-crew member flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved team enhance follows NASA's decision to come back the firm's Boeing Staff Flight Exam uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 along with pair of vacant chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, who introduced aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will flight home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to flight Hague was actually made through NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba must balance taking flight a NASA staff participant along with previous spaceflight experience to influence the tour, while ensuring NASA preserves an integrated workers along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that may run their important units for proceeded, secure station operations." While our company've changed workers prior to for a variety of reasons, downsizing crew for this air travel was one more hard choice to adjust to considered that the workers has qualified as a team of four," claimed Acaba. "I possess the utmost assurance with all our workers, that have actually been excellent throughout instruction for the goal. Zena and also Stephanie will certainly continue to assist their crewmates in advance of launch, and also they show what it indicates to become a specialist rocketeer.".The company will certainly discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when accessible." I am profoundly pleased with our whole entire staff," pointed out Cardman, "and I am certain Chip and also Alex will step into their jobs with excellence. All 4 of us continue to be specialized to the success of the objective, and Stephanie as well as I look forward to piloting when the time corrects.".Wilson added, "I understand Chip as well as Alex are going to perform a wonderful project along with their work aboard the International Space Station as portion of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 times logged in space, this will definitely be actually Hague's third launch and 2nd mission to the orbiting research laboratory. During the course of his very first launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later on, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also served as a tour developer aboard the space station throughout Explorations 59 as well as 60. Hague performed three spacewalks to update space station energy units and also install a docking adapter for commercial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the USA Space Force, Hague accomplished a developing rotation at the Defense Team, and also acted as the Area Pressure's director of test as well as assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to roles at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner Plan until this flight task. Adhere To @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will definitely be actually Gorbunov's very first trip to room and the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he analyzed engineering along with qualifications in space capsule and upper stages from the Moscow Aeronautics Institute. Gorbunov got a degree from the military team along with a specialty in operating and also fixing plane, helicopters, and also airplane engines. Just before his option as a cosmonaut in 2018, he worked as a designer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia and sustained packages space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Expedition 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will certainly sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner carrying out medical investigation and also maintenance tasks right into the terminal's 24th year of continual human presence.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station study as well as 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.