.Publisher's note: This launch was updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to fix Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's function as a purpose professional. It was actually updated once more to remedy a launch date.NASA rocketeer Chip Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, previously announced as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a potential objective..Hague and Gorbunov will flight to the space station as commander and also goal expert, respectively, as component of a two-crew member air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved team supplement adheres to NASA's selection to come back the company's Boeing Team Trip Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with 2 deserted chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, are going to flight home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to take flight Hague was actually made by NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to harmonize flighting a NASA crew participant with previous spaceflight adventure to influence the trip, while making sure NASA preserves an integrated crew along with a Roscosmos astronaut who may run their vital systems for continued, secure terminal procedures." While our company've modified workers just before for a range of reasons, scaling down workers for this trip was yet another hard decision to adapt to dued to the fact that the workers has educated as a crew of 4," said Acaba. "I possess miraculous self-confidence with all our staff, who have been actually superb throughout instruction for the goal. Zena and Stephanie are going to continue to assist their crewmates in advance of launch, as well as they display what it implies to be a qualified rocketeer.".The firm will certainly share reassignment information for Cardman as well as Wilson when readily available." I am heavily proud of our whole staff," mentioned Cardman, "as well as I am confident Nick as well as Alex will certainly step into their tasks with quality. All four of us remain committed to the excellence of this particular objective, as well as Stephanie as well as I await flighting when the amount of time corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I recognize Chip as well as Alex will definitely do an excellent job along with their work aboard the International Space Station as aspect of Exploration 72.".With 203 days logged in room, this will definitely be actually Hague's 3rd launch and also second mission to the orbiting laboratory. Throughout his initial launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer failing, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and safe landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months later on, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as worked as a tour engineer aboard the space station during the course of Expeditions 59 as well as 60. Hague administered 3 spacewalks to improve space station power devices as well as mount a docking adapter for industrial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the USA Room Pressure, Hague finished a developmental turning at the Protection Team, and served as the Space Force's supervisor of exam and also examination coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed roles at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Course till this flight job. Follow @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will be Gorbunov's 1st journey to area as well as the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he examined design along with qualifications in spacecraft and higher stages coming from the Moscow Aviation Principle. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the military department along with a specialty in operating and fixing airplane, choppers, as well as airplane engines. Just before his selection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as a designer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia and sustained freight spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov are going to enter of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the station. They will join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner carrying out clinical research and also servicing activities right into the station's 24th year of ongoing human visibility.Find out more regarding International Spaceport station study and 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.