.Publisher's keep in mind: This launch was actually upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to remedy Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as a mission specialist. It was upgraded once again to correct a launch time.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, formerly introduced as crewmates, are actually entitled for reassignment on a future objective..Hague and Gorbunov are going to pilot to the space station as commander and also purpose professional, respectively, as part of a two-crew element air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved workers complement observes NASA's selection to return the company's Boeing Staff Flight Examination uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 with two deserted seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to fly home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to flight Hague was created through NASA chief rocketeer Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba had to stabilize flying a NASA staff participant with previous spaceflight knowledge to regulate the tour, while ensuring NASA sustains an incorporated workers along with a Roscosmos astronaut who can easily function their crucial devices for proceeded, secure station procedures." While we have actually modified team just before for a wide array of explanations, scaling down crew for this air travel was one more difficult choice to get used to considered that the workers has actually qualified as a workers of four," claimed Acaba. "I possess miraculous assurance in all our team, who have actually been actually exceptional throughout training for the purpose. Zena and Stephanie will continue to help their crewmates in advance of launch, and they display what it implies to become a professional astronaut.".The company is going to share reassignment information for Cardman and also Wilson when readily available." I am actually deeply happy with our entire team," claimed Cardman, "as well as I am actually confident Scar and Alex are going to step into their roles along with excellence. All four of us remain devoted to the results of this particular objective, and Stephanie and I look forward to flying when the moment is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I understand Scar and Alex will definitely carry out a great task with their work aboard the International Space Station as component of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 times logged in area, this will certainly be actually Hague's third launch and also second mission to the orbiting laboratory. During his very first launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as safe landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months later, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also functioned as a trip developer aboard the space station throughout Trips 59 as well as 60. Hague administered 3 spacewalks to update space station energy systems and install a docking adapter for commercial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the USA Room Force, Hague accomplished a developmental turning at the Defense Department, and worked as the Room Force's supervisor of examination and also evaluation coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to duties at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner System till this flight task. Adhere To @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's very first excursion to space and also the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he studied design along with credentials in spacecraft and top phases from the Moscow Air Travel Institute. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the military team with a specialty in operating as well as restoring airplane, choppers, as well as aircraft engines. Before his choice as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as an engineer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia as well as supported cargo space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Trip 72 team aboard the terminal. They will definitely participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner conducting scientific study and routine maintenance tasks in to the station's 24th year of constant human presence.Discover more about International Space Station research 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.