.Editor's note: This release was actually updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to remedy Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as a goal specialist. It was actually improved once again to fix a launch date.NASA astronaut Chip Hague as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, recently declared as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a future purpose..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to take flight to the spaceport station as leader and objective expert, specifically, as component of a two-crew flight aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded staff complement complies with NASA's choice to come back the agency's Boeing Staff Trip Exam uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with pair of uninhabited seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to take flight home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to pilot Hague was created by NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to stabilize flying a NASA crew participant with previous spaceflight knowledge to control the trip, while making certain NASA sustains an incorporated team with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that may function their crucial devices for carried on, secure terminal operations." While our company have actually changed workers before for a selection of main reasons, downsizing staff for this tour was one more challenging decision to get used to considered that the crew has actually qualified as a team of four," claimed Acaba. "I possess the utmost self-confidence in all our team, who have been actually superb throughout training for the objective. Zena as well as Stephanie are going to remain to support their crewmates in front of launch, and they display what it suggests to become a specialist astronaut.".The firm will definitely discuss reassignment details for Cardman and also Wilson when offered." I am actually profoundly pleased with our entire staff," stated Cardman, "and also I am actually confident Chip and also Alex are going to step into their parts along with superiority. All 4 of us remain committed to the effectiveness of this particular mission, and also Stephanie and I eagerly anticipate taking flight when the time is right.".Wilson included, "I know Chip as well as Alex are going to carry out a terrific task along with their job aboard the International Space Station as aspect of Trip 72.".Along with 203 days visited area, this are going to be actually Hague's third launch and also 2nd objective to the orbiting research laboratory. In the course of his initial launch in October 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer breakdown, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as served as a tour designer aboard the space station in the course of Expeditions 59 as well as 60. Hague conducted three spacewalks to improve space station energy systems as well as put up a docking adapter for office space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the USA Area Force, Hague finished a developmental rotation at the Self defense Division, as well as acted as the Space Pressure's supervisor of exam and assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to obligations at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Program until this trip job. Adhere To @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's first trip to room and the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he researched engineering along with certifications in spacecraft as well as upper phases coming from the Moscow Flying Institute. Gorbunov finished coming from the army team along with a specialty in operating and restoring aircraft, helicopters, and also plane motors. Before his collection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he worked as an engineer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia and also supported packages spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will become members of the Expedition 72 staff aboard the station. They will participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner conducting medical research and also maintenance tasks in to the station's 24th year of ongoing individual visibility.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station research study and also functions 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.