.Publisher's keep in mind: This launch was actually updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to deal with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as a purpose specialist. It was improved once again to repair a launch time.NASA astronaut Chip Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, earlier announced as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a future mission..Hague and also Gorbunov will take flight to the spaceport station as leader and also mission professional, respectively, as part of a two-crew member trip aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded workers enhance adheres to NASA's choice to come back the organization's Boeing Crew Trip Examination uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with pair of deserted seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to pilot home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to pilot Hague was actually made by NASA chief rocketeer Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to stabilize flying a NASA team participant along with previous spaceflight adventure to influence the trip, while ensuring NASA maintains an integrated team along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can function their essential bodies for proceeded, secure station operations." While our experts have actually transformed crew just before for an assortment of main reasons, downsizing staff for this air travel was actually one more challenging decision to get used to given that the staff has qualified as a staff of 4," said Acaba. "I possess miraculous peace of mind in each our workers, that have been actually excellent throughout instruction for the purpose. Zena and also Stephanie will certainly continue to support their crewmates in front of launch, as well as they exhibit what it implies to be a specialist astronaut.".The firm will definitely share reassignment information for Cardman and also Wilson when offered." I am deeply happy with our whole crew," stated Cardman, "as well as I am actually confident Nick as well as Alex are going to step into their duties with excellence. All four people stay specialized to the success of the mission, as well as Stephanie and I await flying when the time corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I recognize Nick as well as Alex will certainly do a terrific project along with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as part of Expedition 72.".With 203 days logged in space, this will be actually Hague's 3rd launch and second objective to the orbiting research laboratory. During the course of his 1st launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failure, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months later, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also worked as a tour engineer aboard the space station throughout Expeditions 59 and also 60. Hague performed 3 spacewalks to improve spaceport station energy systems and mount a docking adapter for industrial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Area Pressure, Hague accomplished a developmental turning at the Protection Team, and also acted as the Space Pressure's supervisor of exam and also assessment coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to roles at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner Plan until this trip task. Follow @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This are going to be Gorbunov's first travel to room and also the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he examined design along with credentials in space probe and top stages coming from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the army team with a specialized in operating and restoring aircraft, choppers, as well as airplane engines. Prior to his collection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as an engineer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia and also supported payload spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Expedition 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner administering scientific study and routine maintenance tasks in to the terminal's 24th year of continuous human presence.Discover more concerning International Space Station investigation 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.