.Editor's details: This launch was updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to correct Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's part as a mission expert. It was actually updated once again to deal with a launch time.NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, earlier declared as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a future goal..Hague and also Gorbunov will take flight to the spaceport station as commander and also purpose professional, respectively, as aspect of a two-crew member flight aboard a SpaceX Monster.The improved crew supplement adheres to NASA's decision to return the company's Boeing Workers Air travel Examination uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with two uninhabited chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that released aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, are going to fly home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to pilot Hague was created by NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to balance piloting a NASA crew member with previous spaceflight knowledge to regulate the flight, while making sure NASA sustains an integrated staff along with a Roscosmos astronaut that may work their critical units for carried on, risk-free terminal procedures." While we've modified crew before for a wide array of explanations, scaling down workers for this trip was another tough selection to adapt to given that the team has actually qualified as a workers of 4," stated Acaba. "I possess the utmost peace of mind with all our team, that have actually been actually superb throughout instruction for the mission. Zena and also Stephanie will definitely remain to help their crewmates ahead of launch, and also they embody what it suggests to be a professional astronaut.".The company will definitely share reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when on call." I am actually greatly happy with our whole entire staff," mentioned Cardman, "as well as I am actually confident Nick as well as Alex will enter their tasks with excellence. All 4 of us continue to be specialized to the excellence of the goal, and also Stephanie and also I eagerly anticipate flighting when the time is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I know Nick and also Alex will definitely perform a wonderful project along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 days logged in area, this will be actually Hague's third launch and also second purpose to the orbiting lab. During the course of his first launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer breakdown, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months later, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and functioned as a tour designer aboard the spaceport station during the course of Explorations 59 and also 60. Hague administered three spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station power units as well as set up a docking adapter for commercial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Force, Hague finished a developmental rotation at the Self defense Team, and also worked as the Space Power's director of test and analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to obligations at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner System until this flight assignment. Adhere To @astrohague on X and Instagram.This are going to be actually Gorbunov's very first excursion to space as well as the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he examined engineering with credentials in space capsule as well as top phases coming from the Moscow Aviation Principle. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the armed forces team along with a specialized in operating and repairing aircraft, choppers, and plane motors. Just before his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he worked as a developer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia and also sustained payload space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Expedition 72 team aboard the station. They will certainly sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner carrying out medical research and also servicing activities into the station's 24th year of continuous human existence.Learn more about International Spaceport station analysis and also 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.