.Publisher's keep in mind: This release was actually upgraded two times on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to improve Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's function as a purpose professional. It was actually updated once again to remedy a launch date.NASA astronaut Nick Hague as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, formerly announced as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a future mission..Hague as well as Gorbunov are going to fly to the spaceport station as leader as well as goal expert, specifically, as component of a two-crew member air travel aboard a SpaceX Monster.The improved team enhance follows NASA's selection to return the agency's Boeing Crew Trip Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with pair of unoccupied chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that released aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will fly home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to take flight Hague was created through NASA chief rocketeer Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba had to balance piloting a NASA workers member with previous spaceflight adventure to control the tour, while making sure NASA sustains an integrated staff with a Roscosmos astronaut that can run their critical systems for continued, risk-free terminal operations." While our team've transformed team before for a variety of reasons, downsizing workers for this trip was actually another hard selection to adjust to given that the workers has trained as a team of 4," said Acaba. "I possess miraculous self-confidence in each our staff, who have been superb throughout instruction for the mission. Zena and Stephanie will remain to aid their crewmates in front of launch, as well as they show what it means to become a professional rocketeer.".The company will certainly share reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when accessible." I am actually profoundly proud of our entire workers," said Cardman, "and I am certain Scar and Alex are going to enter their duties with distinction. All 4 of us stay committed to the success of this particular goal, and Stephanie and I look forward to piloting when the time is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I know Scar and also Alex will certainly carry out a terrific job along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as component of Trip 72.".Along with 203 times visited space, this are going to be Hague's third launch as well as 2nd goal to the orbiting research laboratory. During the course of his first launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer breakdown, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. Five months eventually, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and worked as a trip designer aboard the space station in the course of Expeditions 59 and 60. Hague performed 3 spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station electrical power systems and also mount a docking adapter for office spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Area Power, Hague finished a developmental rotation at the Self defense Team, and functioned as the Area Power's director of test and also examination coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed obligations at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Program until this trip job. Comply With @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will be actually Gorbunov's very first excursion to room and the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he analyzed design with qualifications in space capsule as well as top phases coming from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Gorbunov earned a degree coming from the armed forces department with a specialty in operating as well as restoring plane, choppers, and plane motors. Just before his assortment as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as a designer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia and sustained packages space probe launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will enter of the Expedition 72 crew aboard the terminal. They will certainly join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner conducting clinical study as well as upkeep activities in to the terminal's 24th year of continual human visibility.Find out more regarding International Space Station research study and functions 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.