.Editor's keep in mind: This launch was improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to repair Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as an objective specialist. It was updated once again to correct a launch time.NASA astronaut Nick Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, formerly revealed as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a potential goal..Hague and Gorbunov will fly to the space station as commander and mission professional, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew member flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded crew enhance adheres to NASA's selection to come back the firm's Boeing Workers Trip Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with 2 deserted seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, will flight home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to flight Hague was actually made through NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to stabilize taking flight a NASA team member along with previous spaceflight experience to regulate the air travel, while making sure NASA maintains an incorporated team along with a Roscosmos astronaut that can operate their important devices for proceeded, risk-free terminal functions." While we have actually altered workers just before for an assortment of factors, downsizing crew for this trip was actually one more difficult choice to get used to given that the staff has actually qualified as a team of four," said Acaba. "I have miraculous self-confidence in every our crew, who have been excellent throughout instruction for the goal. Zena and Stephanie will continue to help their crewmates in advance of launch, as well as they display what it suggests to become an expert rocketeer.".The organization is going to discuss reassignment details for Cardman and also Wilson when offered." I am heavily proud of our whole entire team," pointed out Cardman, "and I am confident Scar as well as Alex are going to enter their parts with superiority. All four people remain devoted to the excellence of this particular purpose, and also Stephanie and I look forward to taking flight when the moment is right.".Wilson added, "I recognize Scar and also Alex will definitely do a great task along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Exploration 72.".With 203 times visited room, this are going to be actually Hague's third launch and also second purpose to the orbiting research laboratory. Throughout his initial launch in October 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months eventually, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and worked as a flight designer aboard the spaceport station during the course of Expeditions 59 as well as 60. Hague performed three spacewalks to improve space station electrical power units and also set up a docking adapter for business space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Power, Hague completed a developmental rotation at the Self defense Department, as well as served as the Area Pressure's supervisor of test and also evaluation coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed obligations at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner System up until this air travel task. Comply With @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will be Gorbunov's 1st journey to space and the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he studied engineering along with qualifications in space probe as well as higher stages coming from the Moscow Flying Principle. Gorbunov graduated from the army division with a specialty in operating and repairing airplane, choppers, as well as plane motors. Just before his collection as an astronaut in 2018, he operated as a developer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia as well as sustained cargo space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will enter of the Trip 72 crew aboard the terminal. They will certainly sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner carrying out medical investigation and also upkeep tasks right into the station's 24th year of constant individual visibility.Discover more regarding International Space Station investigation and 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.