.Editor's details: This launch was actually updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to remedy Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as an objective professional. It was actually upgraded once again to remedy a launch day.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, recently announced as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a potential mission..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to flight to the space station as commander and also goal specialist, specifically, as portion of a two-crew member tour aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded team supplement follows NASA's choice to return the company's Boeing Workers Tour Test uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 along with pair of empty seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will take flight home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to fly Hague was created through NASA chief rocketeer Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba had to harmonize piloting a NASA workers member with previous spaceflight experience to command the air travel, while ensuring NASA maintains an integrated team with a Roscosmos astronaut who can easily run their vital devices for continued, secure terminal operations." While our experts've modified team prior to for a range of reasons, scaling down team for this trip was another hard selection to adapt to given that the crew has actually taught as a team of 4," mentioned Acaba. "I possess miraculous peace of mind in all our staff, who have actually been actually superb throughout instruction for the mission. Zena and Stephanie will continue to assist their crewmates in front of launch, and they embody what it suggests to be a specialist rocketeer.".The organization will certainly discuss reassignment details for Cardman as well as Wilson when offered." I am profoundly pleased with our entire crew," claimed Cardman, "as well as I am actually positive Nick as well as Alex will definitely enter their duties with distinction. All 4 of us stay devoted to the effectiveness of this particular goal, and Stephanie and I eagerly anticipate flighting when the moment corrects.".Wilson added, "I understand Nick as well as Alex will carry out a terrific project along with their job aboard the International Space Station as component of Trip 72.".Along with 203 times logged in room, this will be actually Hague's third launch as well as second purpose to the orbiting lab. During the course of his very first launch in Oct 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failure, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as safe landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months eventually, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and worked as a tour developer aboard the space station during the course of Trips 59 as well as 60. Hague performed 3 spacewalks to improve space station power units and put in a docking adapter for business spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Pressure, Hague completed a developmental rotation at the Defense Department, as well as worked as the Area Pressure's supervisor of test and also assessment coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed tasks at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Program until this tour project. Observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's initial excursion to space and also the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he studied design along with qualifications in space capsule as well as top stages coming from the Moscow Aeronautics Principle. Gorbunov got a degree from the army division along with a specialty in operating and fixing plane, choppers, and plane motors. Prior to his option as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as a designer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia and sustained freight space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov are going to enter of the Expedition 72 crew aboard the terminal. They are going to sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner administering clinical research study and also routine maintenance activities into the terminal's 24th year of continual individual presence.Discover more regarding International Space Station study as well as operations 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.