.Editor's note: This release was actually upgraded two times on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to correct Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as an objective professional. It was actually updated again to correct a launch day.NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, recently introduced as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a future goal..Hague as well as Gorbunov are going to take flight to the space station as leader and also purpose expert, specifically, as portion of a two-crew flight aboard a SpaceX Monster.The improved workers enhance observes NASA's selection to come back the organization's Boeing Crew Tour Examination uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with 2 vacant seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will fly home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to fly Hague was made by NASA principal astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba had to stabilize flighting a NASA team member with previous spaceflight experience to command the trip, while making sure NASA maintains an incorporated crew with a Roscosmos astronaut who can easily operate their important bodies for continued, risk-free station functions." While our experts've changed team prior to for a range of factors, scaling down staff for this trip was actually one more tough decision to adjust to dued to the fact that the crew has actually educated as a crew of 4," pointed out Acaba. "I possess miraculous confidence in all our staff, that have been actually excellent throughout training for the purpose. Zena and also Stephanie will certainly continue to support their crewmates in front of launch, as well as they embody what it means to be a qualified astronaut.".The organization is going to discuss reassignment details for Cardman as well as Wilson when readily available." I am greatly pleased with our whole entire staff," mentioned Cardman, "as well as I am self-assured Chip as well as Alex will step into their duties along with excellence. All four of us stay specialized to the effectiveness of this particular goal, and Stephanie and also I eagerly anticipate piloting when the time corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I know Scar and Alex will certainly perform a terrific work along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Exploration 72.".With 203 days logged in room, this will definitely be Hague's third launch as well as second mission to the orbiting laboratory. Throughout his initial launch in October 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster breakdown, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months eventually, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also served as a trip designer aboard the space station in the course of Explorations 59 and also 60. Hague conducted three spacewalks to improve spaceport station energy bodies as well as put in a docking adapter for industrial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the USA Area Pressure, Hague accomplished a developing rotation at the Defense Division, as well as worked as the Space Force's supervisor of exam and also examination from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to roles at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner Plan until this air travel project. Follow @astrohague on X and Instagram.This are going to be Gorbunov's first trip to space and the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he analyzed design along with qualifications in spacecraft and also higher phases coming from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov finished coming from the armed forces division along with a specialized in operating as well as fixing airplane, helicopters, as well as plane motors. Before his assortment as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as an engineer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia and also sustained packages space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will enter of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the station. They will certainly participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner carrying out scientific research study and upkeep tasks into the station's 24th year of continual individual existence.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station research study as well as 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.