.Editor's note: This launch was upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to remedy Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as an objective professional. It was actually upgraded once again to deal with a launch date.NASA astronaut Chip Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, recently declared as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a future goal..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to fly to the spaceport station as commander and also mission expert, respectively, as portion of a two-crew member air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded team supplement observes NASA's selection to come back the agency's Boeing Team Flight Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with 2 abandoned seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will pilot home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to flight Hague was actually created by NASA chief rocketeer Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Acaba needed to harmonize piloting a NASA staff member with previous spaceflight adventure to control the flight, while ensuring NASA sustains an incorporated team with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can run their essential systems for carried on, secure station operations." While our experts have actually modified team before for an assortment of reasons, scaling down workers for this tour was actually one more hard decision to adapt to dued to the fact that the workers has actually trained as a crew of four," said Acaba. "I have the utmost assurance in each our workers, who have actually been actually excellent throughout training for the mission. Zena and also Stephanie will definitely continue to support their crewmates in front of launch, as well as they exemplify what it suggests to become an expert astronaut.".The organization will definitely discuss reassignment information for Cardman as well as Wilson when on call." I am profoundly happy with our whole entire crew," claimed Cardman, "as well as I am confident Scar as well as Alex will definitely enter their roles along with quality. All four of us remain committed to the excellence of this mission, as well as Stephanie and I look forward to taking flight when the moment is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I understand Nick and Alex will definitely do a wonderful work along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 times logged in room, this will definitely be Hague's 3rd launch and second purpose to the orbiting laboratory. Throughout his first launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer breakdown, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months later, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as served as a trip engineer aboard the spaceport station during the course of Trips 59 and also 60. Hague administered three spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station power devices as well as put in a docking adapter for industrial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the USA Room Pressure, Hague completed a developmental turning at the Defense Division, and also acted as the Area Power's supervisor of exam as well as examination from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed obligations at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Program till this flight assignment. Comply With @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will be Gorbunov's very first travel to room and also the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he studied engineering along with certifications in spacecraft and also higher phases coming from the Moscow Aviation Principle. Gorbunov earned a degree from the military department with a specialty in operating and also repairing plane, choppers, and aircraft motors. Just before his option as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as an engineer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia as well as sustained cargo spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will become members of the Trip 72 crew aboard the terminal. They will sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner conducting medical research and also routine maintenance tasks right into the terminal's 24th year of ongoing individual existence.Find out more about International Space Station study as well as procedures 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.