.Editor's keep in mind: This launch was actually updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to deal with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's part as a purpose specialist. It was actually upgraded once more to remedy a launch time.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, earlier announced as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a future goal..Hague and also Gorbunov will fly to the space station as commander and purpose professional, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew member tour aboard a SpaceX Monster.The updated staff complement follows NASA's selection to return the firm's Boeing Team Air travel Examination uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with pair of uninhabited seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to take flight home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to fly Hague was actually created by NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba had to harmonize taking flight a NASA staff participant along with previous spaceflight expertise to command the tour, while guaranteeing NASA keeps an incorporated crew along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can easily function their essential systems for proceeded, risk-free terminal operations." While our experts've altered staff prior to for a wide array of causes, scaling down workers for this tour was actually yet another hard choice to adapt to given that the workers has actually trained as a staff of four," stated Acaba. "I possess miraculous assurance in all our staff, who have been actually great throughout training for the goal. Zena and Stephanie will definitely remain to support their crewmates before launch, and they display what it implies to become a specialist astronaut.".The agency will certainly share reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when offered." I am profoundly proud of our entire workers," pointed out Cardman, "as well as I am actually positive Nick and Alex will certainly enter their roles along with excellence. All 4 of us stay devoted to the success of this purpose, and Stephanie and I await taking flight when the time is right.".Wilson added, "I understand Scar and Alex will definitely do a wonderful work with their work aboard the International Space Station as component of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 times logged in area, this will definitely be Hague's third launch as well as second goal to the orbiting research laboratory. During his first launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer failing, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months later, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as worked as a flight engineer aboard the spaceport station in the course of Trips 59 and also 60. Hague administered 3 spacewalks to update space station power devices and also set up a docking adapter for office space probe. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Force, Hague completed a developing turning at the Defense Department, and also served as the Area Power's director of exam and evaluation from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed duties at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Course till this flight assignment. Comply With @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will be Gorbunov's very first journey to room as well as the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he studied engineering with qualifications in spacecraft as well as higher phases from the Moscow Flying Principle. Gorbunov got a degree from the armed forces division with a specialty in operating and also restoring aircraft, helicopters, and plane motors. Before his option as an astronaut in 2018, he functioned as a designer for Rocket Room Corp. Energia and also sustained freight space probe launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov are going to enter of the Trip 72 staff aboard the station. They will certainly join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner carrying out medical research study and servicing tasks in to the terminal's 24th year of continuous human visibility.Find out more concerning International Spaceport 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.