.Editor's keep in mind: This launch was actually updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to repair Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's part as an objective expert. It was improved again to remedy a launch time.NASA astronaut Nick Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, recently introduced as crewmates, are actually entitled for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague and also Gorbunov will flight to the space station as commander and goal specialist, specifically, as portion of a two-crew member flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded workers enhance follows NASA's choice to return the agency's Boeing Staff Tour Exam uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with pair of empty chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will flight home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to take flight Hague was actually made through NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Acaba needed to harmonize flighting a NASA crew member with previous spaceflight expertise to command the trip, while ensuring NASA sustains an integrated team along with a Roscosmos astronaut who can run their important bodies for proceeded, safe terminal functions." While our team have actually altered staff prior to for an assortment of factors, downsizing workers for this flight was actually an additional hard decision to adjust to dued to the fact that the crew has actually trained as a team of four," pointed out Acaba. "I possess miraculous self-confidence in each our staff, that have been actually superb throughout training for the objective. Zena and also Stephanie will certainly remain to aid their crewmates ahead of launch, and they show what it indicates to be a professional rocketeer.".The firm will definitely share reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when accessible." I am actually greatly pleased with our whole team," stated Cardman, "and also I am actually confident Nick and also Alex will step into their roles with quality. All 4 people remain dedicated to the results of this particular objective, as well as Stephanie as well as I anticipate taking flight when the amount of time corrects.".Wilson included, "I recognize Scar as well as Alex will certainly perform a wonderful project along with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as aspect of Trip 72.".Along with 203 times logged in space, this will definitely be actually Hague's third launch and second objective to the orbiting laboratory. In the course of his initial launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer breakdown, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and served as a flight developer aboard the space station during Expeditions 59 and also 60. Hague carried out three spacewalks to improve spaceport station energy bodies and mount a docking adapter for commercial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Room Pressure, Hague completed a developing turning at the Self defense Department, and also worked as the Space Force's director of examination as well as examination from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed obligations at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Plan till this flight task. Comply With @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will be Gorbunov's first trip to area as well as the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he examined design with credentials in spacecraft and also top stages from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov got a degree from the military division along with a specialized in operating as well as restoring plane, helicopters, and plane engines. Just before his choice as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as a designer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia and sustained packages space probe launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will become members of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the station. They will definitely participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner carrying out medical study and also maintenance activities in to the terminal's 24th year of continual human visibility.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station research and functions 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.