.Publisher's keep in mind: This release was actually improved two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to improve Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as a goal expert. It was improved again to fix a launch time.NASA astronaut Chip Hague as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, earlier introduced as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a future goal..Hague as well as Gorbunov will flight to the space station as commander and also purpose professional, respectively, as portion of a two-crew element air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded crew enhance follows NASA's choice to come back the organization's Boeing Crew Trip Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with two vacant chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that released aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will fly home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to pilot Hague was actually made through NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba needed to harmonize flighting a NASA crew participant with previous spaceflight experience to regulate the air travel, while making sure NASA sustains an incorporated workers with a Roscosmos astronaut that may operate their vital bodies for carried on, safe terminal operations." While our experts have actually modified team just before for a wide array of main reasons, scaling down staff for this tour was another hard selection to adapt to considered that the staff has actually trained as a workers of 4," claimed Acaba. "I have the utmost confidence in every our crew, that have been actually excellent throughout training for the objective. Zena as well as Stephanie will certainly remain to assist their crewmates in front of launch, and they show what it indicates to become a specialist rocketeer.".The firm will certainly discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when on call." I am profoundly happy with our whole workers," pointed out Cardman, "and I am actually self-assured Chip as well as Alex will definitely step into their duties with distinction. All four people remain specialized to the success of this mission, as well as Stephanie and I await taking flight when the time is right.".Wilson included, "I recognize Nick as well as Alex are going to perform a wonderful task along with their work aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72.".With 203 days visited room, this will certainly be Hague's third launch as well as 2nd goal to the orbiting lab. During his initial launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster breakdown, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also safe landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also served as a flight designer aboard the space station in the course of Explorations 59 as well as 60. Hague performed 3 spacewalks to update space station power systems and also set up a docking adapter for industrial space probe. An active-duty colonel in the united state Space Force, Hague completed a developmental rotation at the Defense Department, and also acted as the Room Power's director of examination and also evaluation from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to responsibilities at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Program up until this trip task. Follow @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This are going to be actually Gorbunov's initial excursion to area as well as the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he examined design with certifications in spacecraft and upper phases from the Moscow Air Travel Institute. Gorbunov graduated coming from the military team along with a specialty in operating and also mending airplane, choppers, as well as aircraft motors. Prior to his choice as a cosmonaut in 2018, he worked as a developer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia and sustained payload spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Trip 72 workers aboard the terminal. They are going to join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner performing clinical research study as well as upkeep tasks right into the terminal's 24th year of constant human visibility.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station analysis and also functions 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.