.Publisher's keep in mind: This launch was actually improved two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to deal with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's part as a mission specialist. It was actually improved once more to deal with a launch time.NASA astronaut Chip Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, earlier announced as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a potential goal..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to take flight to the space station as commander as well as objective expert, respectively, as aspect of a two-crew element tour aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated team complement follows NASA's selection to come back the agency's Boeing Crew Tour Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with two unoccupied seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, are going to pilot home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to flight Hague was made by NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba had to balance piloting a NASA workers member along with previous spaceflight experience to regulate the tour, while ensuring NASA sustains an incorporated staff along with a Roscosmos astronaut that can easily work their crucial systems for proceeded, safe station procedures." While we have actually changed team just before for a selection of main reasons, downsizing team for this trip was actually one more hard decision to get used to considered that the workers has taught as a team of four," claimed Acaba. "I possess miraculous confidence in all our crew, who have been actually great throughout training for the goal. Zena and also Stephanie will certainly continue to assist their crewmates in front of launch, as well as they exemplify what it means to be a professional astronaut.".The organization will discuss reassignment details for Cardman as well as Wilson when readily available." I am deeply happy with our whole team," claimed Cardman, "and also I am self-assured Scar and also Alex will step into their functions with excellence. All 4 people stay devoted to the success of this objective, and Stephanie and I anticipate flighting when the moment corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I recognize Chip and also Alex will definitely perform an excellent work along with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as part of Trip 72.".With 203 times visited room, this are going to be actually Hague's 3rd launch as well as second mission to the orbiting laboratory. During the course of his first launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster breakdown, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months eventually, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as served as a flight designer aboard the space station in the course of Trips 59 and also 60. Hague performed three spacewalks to improve spaceport station power devices as well as install a docking adapter for commercial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Force, Hague finished a developmental rotation at the Defense Department, and acted as the Area Force's director of exam as well as evaluation from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed duties at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner Course until this tour job. Adhere To @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will be Gorbunov's very first trip to space and also the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he studied design along with credentials in space capsule and also top stages coming from the Moscow Air Travel Institute. Gorbunov earned a degree coming from the military team along with a specialized in operating and also repairing plane, choppers, as well as aircraft motors. Before his assortment as an astronaut in 2018, he functioned as a developer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia and sustained payload spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Exploration 72 team aboard the terminal. They are going to join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner carrying out scientific research and also maintenance activities into the station's 24th year of continual individual existence.Find out more regarding International Space Station research study and also procedures 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.