.Editor's keep in mind: This launch was actually updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to fix Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as a mission specialist. It was upgraded once again to correct a launch time.NASA astronaut Chip Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, recently declared as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a future mission..Hague and Gorbunov are going to take flight to the spaceport station as commander and mission professional, respectively, as component of a two-crew element trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded crew complement follows NASA's choice to return the organization's Boeing Team Tour Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with 2 uninhabited seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner space probe in June, will fly home along with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to pilot Hague was created by NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to stabilize flying a NASA staff member with previous spaceflight experience to influence the flight, while guaranteeing NASA sustains an incorporated team along with a Roscosmos astronaut who may work their critical bodies for carried on, safe station procedures." While our team have actually altered workers just before for an assortment of causes, scaling down team for this air travel was one more challenging decision to get used to given that the team has qualified as a workers of four," stated Acaba. "I possess the utmost peace of mind in each our staff, who have actually been exceptional throughout training for the mission. Zena as well as Stephanie are going to remain to help their crewmates in advance of launch, and they embody what it implies to become an expert rocketeer.".The firm will share reassignment information for Cardman as well as Wilson when accessible." I am actually greatly pleased with our entire staff," pointed out Cardman, "as well as I am confident Nick and also Alex will certainly enter their jobs with superiority. All 4 of us continue to be committed to the excellence of this purpose, as well as Stephanie and I eagerly anticipate piloting when the time is right.".Wilson added, "I recognize Chip and Alex are going to perform a wonderful project along with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 times visited area, this will definitely be Hague's third launch and also second mission to the orbiting laboratory. Throughout his 1st launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer breakdown, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and risk-free touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also acted as a trip developer aboard the space station during the course of Trips 59 and 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to update space station energy systems as well as set up a docking adapter for office space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Power, Hague completed a developmental turning at the Self defense Department, and also worked as the Space Pressure's director of exam as well as analysis from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed duties at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Course until this trip project. Comply With @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's first journey to space and also the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he studied design along with certifications in space capsule and also upper phases coming from the Moscow Aeronautics Principle. Gorbunov finished from the armed forces division along with a specialty in operating and also restoring plane, helicopters, and also aircraft engines. Just before his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as an engineer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia as well as supported packages space probe launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Trip 72 crew aboard the terminal. They will certainly sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner performing scientific study and also servicing tasks into the station's 24th year of constant human existence.Learn more about International Space 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.