.Publisher's note: This release was actually upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to correct Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's function as a mission expert. It was actually updated once again to remedy a launch time.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, earlier introduced as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a future mission..Hague as well as Gorbunov will take flight to the spaceport station as leader as well as goal specialist, specifically, as component of a two-crew flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated workers enhance complies with NASA's decision to return the company's Boeing Crew Trip Examination uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with 2 unoccupied seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, who released aboard the Starliner space probe in June, will take flight home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to take flight Hague was made through NASA chief rocketeer Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba had to stabilize flying a NASA workers participant along with previous spaceflight knowledge to control the tour, while guaranteeing NASA keeps an incorporated team with a Roscosmos astronaut that may operate their crucial devices for proceeded, risk-free station procedures." While our team've altered staff before for a variety of main reasons, scaling down crew for this tour was an additional difficult choice to adjust to dued to the fact that the workers has trained as a staff of 4," claimed Acaba. "I possess the utmost confidence with all our workers, who have been outstanding throughout training for the purpose. Zena as well as Stephanie will remain to support their crewmates in advance of launch, as well as they show what it implies to become a specialist astronaut.".The company will share reassignment details for Cardman and also Wilson when available." I am actually profoundly proud of our whole crew," mentioned Cardman, "as well as I am actually positive Nick and also Alex will certainly step into their jobs with distinction. All four people remain committed to the effectiveness of the goal, as well as Stephanie and also I look forward to piloting when the time is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I know Scar and Alex are going to do a great project with their work aboard the International Space Station as component of Trip 72.".With 203 days logged in room, this will be actually Hague's 3rd launch and second mission to the orbiting research laboratory. During the course of his first launch in Oct 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster breakdown, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also safe landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as acted as an air travel engineer aboard the space station in the course of Expeditions 59 and also 60. Hague carried out three spacewalks to improve spaceport station electrical power devices and put up a docking adapter for commercial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Space Pressure, Hague completed a developing rotation at the Protection Department, and functioned as the Space Pressure's supervisor of test as well as examination coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to responsibilities at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner System till this trip assignment. Observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will be Gorbunov's initial travel to space and the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he researched engineering along with credentials in space probe as well as top stages coming from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov graduated coming from the army team along with a specialty in operating and mending airplane, helicopters, as well as aircraft engines. Just before his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he worked as a designer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia as well as assisted packages space probe launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Expedition 72 staff aboard the station. They will certainly sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner performing clinical analysis as well as servicing tasks into the terminal's 24th year of ongoing human visibility.Discover more about International Spaceport 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.