.Publisher's note: This release was actually improved two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to deal with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as an objective professional. It was actually upgraded again to improve a launch time.NASA astronaut Nick Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, formerly introduced as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a future purpose..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to pilot to the spaceport station as leader and goal specialist, respectively, as aspect of a two-crew trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved team supplement complies with NASA's selection to return the agency's Boeing Workers Tour Test uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 with two abandoned chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to take flight home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to fly Hague was actually created by NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba must stabilize flying a NASA workers member along with previous spaceflight knowledge to control the air travel, while making certain NASA sustains an integrated team with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that may operate their critical bodies for proceeded, safe terminal procedures." While our team have actually changed crew prior to for an assortment of factors, downsizing team for this trip was another challenging selection to get used to considered that the workers has educated as a crew of four," said Acaba. "I possess the utmost confidence in every our workers, who have actually been superb throughout training for the objective. Zena and Stephanie will continue to assist their crewmates in front of launch, and they display what it implies to be a specialist rocketeer.".The firm is going to discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when offered." I am heavily happy with our whole team," pointed out Cardman, "as well as I am actually positive Nick and also Alex will definitely enter their roles with superiority. All four of us remain dedicated to the results of this mission, as well as Stephanie as well as I expect taking flight when the amount of time is right.".Wilson added, "I recognize Scar and also Alex are going to perform a wonderful work along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as aspect of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 times visited area, this will be Hague's 3rd launch and also second mission to the orbiting lab. During the course of his first launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer failure, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as safe landing in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later on, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as functioned as an air travel designer aboard the space station during the course of Expeditions 59 as well as 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to update spaceport station power devices and also install a docking adapter for business spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the USA Room Power, Hague completed a developmental turning at the Protection Department, and acted as the Space Force's director of examination as well as examination coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed roles at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Course until this trip project. Comply With @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will be actually Gorbunov's initial journey to area and also the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he researched engineering along with credentials in space probe and also upper stages from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Gorbunov finished from the army division along with a specialty in operating and also mending airplane, helicopters, and aircraft motors. Just before his choice as a cosmonaut in 2018, he worked as a developer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia as well as sustained payload space probe launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will become members of the Expedition 72 crew aboard the terminal. They are going to join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner administering medical research as well as maintenance tasks into the station's 24th year of continuous individual visibility.Learn more about International Spaceport station research study and also 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.