.Publisher's note: This release was updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to fix Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a purpose expert. It was updated once more to correct a launch date.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, formerly introduced as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to pilot to the spaceport station as commander and also objective specialist, respectively, as portion of a two-crew air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded workers supplement adheres to NASA's decision to come back the organization's Boeing Staff Trip Test uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 along with 2 empty seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to flight home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to take flight Hague was actually made through NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to balance flying a NASA workers participant along with previous spaceflight knowledge to control the flight, while guaranteeing NASA sustains an incorporated crew with a Roscosmos astronaut who can work their important devices for continued, safe terminal procedures." While our team've transformed team prior to for a wide array of main reasons, downsizing workers for this air travel was actually yet another difficult selection to adjust to considered that the staff has actually taught as a crew of four," pointed out Acaba. "I possess the utmost confidence in each our workers, who have actually been outstanding throughout instruction for the purpose. Zena as well as Stephanie will continue to assist their crewmates in advance of launch, and they embody what it indicates to be a qualified astronaut.".The agency will definitely discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when available." I am actually profoundly happy with our whole crew," said Cardman, "and I am actually self-assured Chip and also Alex are going to enter their roles with superiority. All 4 people stay specialized to the success of this particular objective, as well as Stephanie and I anticipate flighting when the moment is right.".Wilson added, "I know Chip and also Alex will definitely do a wonderful job with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as aspect of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 times visited area, this will be actually Hague's 3rd launch and 2nd purpose to the orbiting laboratory. Throughout his initial 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, as well as risk-free touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months later on, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as acted as a trip designer aboard the space station during Trips 59 and also 60. Hague carried out three spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station electrical power devices and mount a docking adapter for commercial space probe. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Space Pressure, Hague finished a developmental turning at the Protection Division, as well as worked as the Space Power's director of test as well as analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to tasks at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Course till this flight task. Adhere To @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's very first excursion to room and also the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he studied engineering along with qualifications in spacecraft as well as top stages coming from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Gorbunov earned a degree coming from the army team with a specialty in operating as well as mending airplane, helicopters, and also airplane motors. Prior to his choice as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as a designer for Spacecraft Area Corp. Energia as well as sustained payload spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Expedition 72 team aboard the station. They will join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner conducting clinical research study and also servicing tasks in to the terminal's 24th year of constant individual presence.Find out more about International Spaceport station study and 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.