.Publisher's note: This release was actually upgraded two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to remedy Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a purpose professional. It was updated once more to fix a launch date.NASA astronaut Chip Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, previously revealed as crewmates, are actually entitled for reassignment on a future mission..Hague and Gorbunov are going to flight to the spaceport station as leader as well as purpose specialist, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded workers complement complies with NASA's decision to return the organization's Boeing Team Trip Exam uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with 2 unoccupied seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who released aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, are going to pilot home along with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to flight Hague was created by NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba must balance piloting a NASA staff member with previous spaceflight adventure to influence the air travel, while making sure NASA keeps an incorporated crew along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can easily run their vital devices for continued, risk-free terminal operations." While our company have actually changed workers just before for a wide array of reasons, scaling down workers for this flight was actually an additional tough selection to get used to considered that the crew has taught as a crew of four," said Acaba. "I possess miraculous confidence in all our team, that have been superb throughout training for the mission. Zena and Stephanie will certainly remain to aid their crewmates in advance of launch, as well as they show what it means to become a specialist rocketeer.".The organization will definitely share reassignment information for Cardman as well as Wilson when accessible." I am heavily happy with our whole staff," claimed Cardman, "and I am actually positive Scar and Alex will step into their functions with superiority. All four people continue to be specialized to the effectiveness of the objective, and also Stephanie as well as I look forward to flying when the moment corrects.".Wilson added, "I understand Scar and Alex will certainly perform an excellent task with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as aspect of Exploration 72.".With 203 times logged in area, this will be Hague's third launch and also second objective to the orbiting lab. In the course of his initial launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer failing, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and risk-free touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months eventually, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as served as a tour designer aboard the spaceport station during the course of Trips 59 and also 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to update spaceport station energy devices and also put in a docking adapter for office space probe. An active-duty colonel in the USA Space Pressure, Hague completed a developing turning at the Protection Team, as well as acted as the Room Force's supervisor of examination as well as assessment coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed roles at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Program until this air travel job. Adhere To @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's very first vacation to space and also the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he researched design along with qualifications in space capsule as well as top stages from the Moscow Aeronautics Principle. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the military team with a specialized in operating as well as repairing aircraft, helicopters, and airplane engines. Before his option as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as an engineer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia and assisted payload space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Exploration 72 workers aboard the terminal. They are going to participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner conducting clinical research study and also maintenance activities in to the station's 24th year of continuous human visibility.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station analysis as well as procedures 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.