.Publisher's note: This launch was actually upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to deal with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as a mission professional. It was improved once more to repair a launch time.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, formerly revealed as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a potential goal..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to pilot to the space station as leader and also objective professional, specifically, as component of a two-crew element air travel aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded staff supplement complies with NASA's decision to return the agency's Boeing Crew Air travel Examination uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with 2 unoccupied seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner space probe in June, will flight home along with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to pilot Hague was made by NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba had to balance taking flight a NASA staff participant with previous spaceflight expertise to regulate the tour, while making certain NASA maintains an incorporated crew with a Roscosmos astronaut that may run their crucial units for continued, risk-free station functions." While our experts've transformed staff prior to for a selection of factors, scaling down workers for this trip was actually another difficult choice to adapt to dued to the fact that the team has actually taught as a staff of 4," stated Acaba. "I have miraculous self-confidence in each our staff, who have actually been excellent throughout instruction for the objective. Zena as well as Stephanie will definitely continue to assist their crewmates in front of launch, and also they embody what it implies to become a specialist rocketeer.".The firm will certainly share reassignment details for Cardman as well as Wilson when available." I am actually greatly happy with our whole workers," stated Cardman, "as well as I am actually self-assured Chip and also Alex will enter their functions along with superiority. All four people stay committed to the excellence of this particular goal, as well as Stephanie and I anticipate flying when the moment corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I recognize Nick and Alex will certainly do a terrific project along with their work aboard the International Space Station as component of Expedition 72.".With 203 times visited room, this will definitely be Hague's third launch as well as 2nd objective to the orbiting laboratory. Throughout his very first launch in October 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failure, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also risk-free touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months later on, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also served as an air travel designer aboard the space station during Expeditions 59 and also 60. Hague conducted 3 spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station energy devices and also put up a docking adapter for office space probe. An active-duty colonel in the USA Area Power, Hague finished a developing turning at the Defense Team, and served as the Space Power's supervisor of test and analysis from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to tasks at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Plan up until this tour job. Observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will certainly be actually Gorbunov's very first excursion to room as well as the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he analyzed engineering along with qualifications in space probe and upper phases coming from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov earned a degree coming from the armed forces department with a specialty in operating and restoring plane, choppers, and airplane motors. Just before his selection as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as an engineer for Spacecraft Area Corp. Energia and also assisted packages space probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner conducting medical research study and servicing tasks in to the station's 24th year of continual human visibility.Find out more concerning International Spaceport station research as well as 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.