.Publisher's note: This release was improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to repair Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a goal specialist. It was upgraded again to improve a launch date.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, earlier introduced as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a future objective..Hague as well as Gorbunov will pilot to the space station as commander and mission specialist, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew flight aboard a SpaceX Monster.The updated crew complement adheres to NASA's decision to come back the agency's Boeing Crew Tour Examination uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with pair of unoccupied chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to take flight home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to fly Hague was actually created through NASA chief rocketeer Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba had to balance taking flight a NASA staff participant with previous spaceflight experience to control the air travel, while making sure NASA maintains an integrated crew along with a Roscosmos astronaut who may function their essential bodies for carried on, risk-free station functions." While our experts have actually transformed crew before for a range of explanations, scaling down team for this flight was actually one more challenging selection to adapt to given that the crew has actually taught as a workers of 4," stated Acaba. "I possess the utmost peace of mind in every our crew, who have actually been exceptional throughout instruction for the purpose. Zena and Stephanie will definitely remain to assist their crewmates before launch, and they embody what it indicates to become a specialist rocketeer.".The agency will share reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when readily available." I am deeply happy with our entire workers," said Cardman, "and also I am actually positive Nick and also Alex are going to enter their jobs with distinction. All four of us continue to be dedicated to the effectiveness of this mission, as well as Stephanie and also I expect taking flight when the moment is right.".Wilson added, "I understand Chip and also Alex will carry out a great project with their work aboard the International Space Station as aspect of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 times visited area, this will definitely be actually Hague's third launch and also second goal to the orbiting lab. During the course of his initial launch in Oct 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer breakdown, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and risk-free touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months eventually, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as acted as an air travel designer aboard the spaceport station throughout Expeditions 59 as well as 60. Hague administered three spacewalks to update spaceport station electrical power bodies and also put up a docking adapter for industrial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Room Pressure, Hague completed a developmental turning at the Defense Team, as well as functioned as the Area Power's director of examination as well as analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed duties at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner Course until this trip job. Comply With @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will be actually Gorbunov's 1st vacation to space and the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he researched design with qualifications in space capsule and top stages coming from the Moscow Aeronautics Principle. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the military division with a specialty in operating as well as restoring aircraft, choppers, and aircraft motors. Prior to his option as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as a designer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia and supported packages space probe launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Expedition 72 team aboard the station. They will certainly participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner conducting scientific analysis and upkeep activities right into the station's 24th year of constant human existence.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station investigation 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.