.Editor's keep in mind: This launch was actually improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to remedy Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a purpose expert. It was actually improved once again to fix a launch date.NASA astronaut Nick Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, previously introduced as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a future goal..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to flight to the space station as leader as well as goal specialist, respectively, as portion of a two-crew member tour aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated crew enhance follows NASA's selection to return the agency's Boeing Workers Flight Test uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 along with two uninhabited chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, are going to flight home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to take flight Hague was created through NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba must stabilize piloting a NASA team member along with previous spaceflight adventure to regulate the air travel, while guaranteeing NASA maintains an incorporated team with a Roscosmos astronaut that may work their essential bodies for carried on, secure station functions." While we've modified crew just before for an assortment of factors, downsizing crew for this air travel was actually another difficult selection to adapt to given that the crew has qualified as a staff of 4," stated Acaba. "I possess miraculous assurance with all our crew, who have actually been great throughout instruction for the goal. Zena as well as Stephanie are going to remain to aid their crewmates in front of launch, and they display what it indicates to become a specialist astronaut.".The company will certainly share reassignment information for Cardman and also Wilson when accessible." I am actually greatly pleased with our whole staff," mentioned Cardman, "as well as I am self-assured Nick and Alex will definitely enter their jobs with superiority. All four people continue to be devoted to the excellence of this particular goal, and also Stephanie and also I await taking flight when the time corrects.".Wilson included, "I recognize Nick and Alex will carry out a fantastic work along with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as part of Expedition 72.".With 203 times logged in room, this will definitely be actually Hague's 3rd launch as well as 2nd objective to the orbiting research laboratory. Throughout his first launch in October 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failing, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also secure landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months later, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also acted as a tour engineer aboard the spaceport station in the course of Expeditions 59 and also 60. Hague administered three spacewalks to update spaceport station electrical power bodies and set up a docking adapter for industrial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Area Power, Hague completed a developmental turning at the Defense Division, as well as acted as the Space Power's supervisor of examination as well as analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed responsibilities at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Program till this tour assignment. Follow @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This are going to be actually Gorbunov's very first journey to area as well as the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he examined engineering with qualifications in spacecraft and also upper phases coming from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov graduated coming from the military team along with a specialized in operating and also restoring plane, helicopters, as well as airplane motors. Before his choice as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as an engineer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia and also supported packages space probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will enter of the Exploration 72 workers aboard the terminal. They are going to sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner carrying out clinical study as well as routine maintenance activities right into the terminal's 24th year of ongoing individual existence.Find out more about International Spaceport station research study as well as functions 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.