.Editor's note: This release was improved two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to fix Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as an objective specialist. It was updated once more to fix a launch day.NASA rocketeer Chip Hague as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, previously revealed as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a potential objective..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to flight to the spaceport station as commander and also objective expert, specifically, as portion of a two-crew element trip aboard a SpaceX Monster.The updated team enhance follows NASA's decision to come back the company's Boeing Crew Tour Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with 2 deserted chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to fly home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to take flight Hague was actually created through NASA chief rocketeer Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to harmonize taking flight a NASA workers participant with previous spaceflight experience to control the trip, while guaranteeing NASA sustains an incorporated team along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can function their vital systems for carried on, safe station operations." While we have actually transformed team before for a selection of causes, scaling down team for this air travel was an additional tough selection to adapt to dued to the fact that the team has actually educated as a crew of 4," claimed Acaba. "I possess miraculous confidence in every our staff, that have been superb throughout training for the mission. Zena and Stephanie will definitely remain to assist their crewmates before launch, and they display what it means to be a professional astronaut.".The firm will definitely share reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when readily available." I am heavily happy with our whole entire workers," stated Cardman, "as well as I am actually self-assured Nick as well as Alex are going to step into their jobs along with superiority. All four people remain devoted to the excellence of this particular mission, as well as Stephanie and also I eagerly anticipate flying when the time corrects.".Wilson added, "I understand Scar as well as Alex will certainly perform a wonderful task with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as part of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 days visited room, this will definitely be Hague's 3rd launch as well as second mission to the orbiting lab. During his 1st launch in Oct 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer failure, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also functioned as a flight developer aboard the spaceport station during the course of Expeditions 59 and also 60. Hague performed 3 spacewalks to upgrade space station energy devices and install a docking adapter for business spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the USA Room Force, Hague finished a developmental rotation at the Self defense Department, and also worked as the Area Power's supervisor of exam as well as analysis from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to duties at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Course until this tour job. Observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's initial vacation to room and the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he analyzed engineering along with credentials in space probe as well as top phases from the Moscow Flying Institute. Gorbunov graduated from the army department with a specialty in operating and also fixing airplane, helicopters, and also plane motors. Before his variety as an astronaut in 2018, he functioned as a developer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia and sustained packages spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to become members of the Expedition 72 crew aboard the station. They will certainly participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner conducting scientific research study and servicing activities into the terminal's 24th year of ongoing human presence.Discover more regarding International Space Station investigation 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.