.Editor's details: This release was upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to improve Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as a purpose expert. It was actually upgraded once again to improve a launch time.NASA astronaut Chip Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, recently declared as crewmates, are actually entitled for reassignment on a potential mission..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to fly to the space station as commander as well as purpose professional, respectively, as component of a two-crew element air travel aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded workers enhance observes NASA's choice to come back the organization's Boeing Team Air travel Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with pair of empty seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that released aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will take flight home along with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to pilot Hague was actually made through NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba must stabilize flighting a NASA workers member with previous spaceflight adventure to influence the tour, while guaranteeing NASA sustains an incorporated workers along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can run their important devices for proceeded, secure station procedures." While we've altered team prior to for an assortment of explanations, scaling down workers for this air travel was one more challenging decision to adjust to considered that the team has educated as a crew of four," stated Acaba. "I possess miraculous peace of mind in every our team, that have been actually exceptional throughout instruction for the mission. Zena and also Stephanie will certainly remain to help their crewmates ahead of launch, and also they embody what it indicates to become a qualified rocketeer.".The company will definitely discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when available." I am heavily happy with our whole entire workers," claimed Cardman, "as well as I am actually positive Scar and Alex will certainly step into their jobs along with quality. All four people stay dedicated to the effectiveness of the objective, and Stephanie and I anticipate taking flight when the moment corrects.".Wilson included, "I know Nick as well as Alex will definitely do a fantastic job along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Exploration 72.".With 203 days visited room, this will certainly be actually Hague's 3rd launch and also second goal to the orbiting laboratory. Throughout his first launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failing, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also risk-free touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later on, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as functioned as a flight developer aboard the spaceport station in the course of Expeditions 59 and 60. Hague conducted 3 spacewalks to upgrade space station electrical power bodies as well as put up a docking adapter for office spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the USA Room Force, Hague finished a developing turning at the Defense Department, and worked as the Room Pressure's supervisor of exam and examination coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed responsibilities at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Plan until this tour job. Observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's very first travel to space as well as the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he examined engineering along with qualifications in spacecraft as well as upper stages from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Gorbunov got a degree from the armed forces team with a specialty in operating and restoring plane, helicopters, as well as aircraft engines. Prior to his selection as an astronaut in 2018, he functioned as a designer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia and also assisted cargo space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to become members of the Exploration 72 team aboard the terminal. They will certainly sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner conducting scientific investigation and also routine maintenance activities in to the station's 24th year of continual human presence.Discover more about International Space Station 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.