.Editor's note: This release was actually updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to fix Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's function as a goal professional. It was upgraded once again to remedy a launch day.NASA rocketeer Chip Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, formerly revealed as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to pilot to the space station as leader and goal specialist, specifically, as portion of a two-crew member air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded team complement adheres to NASA's selection to come back the agency's Boeing Crew Tour Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with two deserted chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, will take flight home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to flight Hague was actually made through NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba must harmonize flying a NASA team member along with previous spaceflight expertise to regulate the air travel, while ensuring NASA preserves an incorporated crew with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who may run their important bodies for proceeded, safe terminal operations." While we have actually changed staff before for a range of main reasons, scaling down crew for this air travel was actually an additional difficult choice to get used to dued to the fact that the team has actually educated as a crew of 4," pointed out Acaba. "I have the utmost self-confidence in each our crew, that have actually been actually exceptional throughout instruction for the mission. Zena as well as Stephanie will continue to aid their crewmates ahead of launch, and they exemplify what it means to be an expert astronaut.".The company will certainly discuss reassignment details for Cardman as well as Wilson when readily available." I am actually heavily proud of our entire workers," pointed out Cardman, "and I am actually confident Scar and also Alex will definitely enter their roles along with superiority. All four of us remain dedicated to the success of the mission, and Stephanie and also I anticipate taking flight when the time is right.".Wilson included, "I understand Chip and Alex are going to carry out a terrific project with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 days visited space, this will certainly be Hague's 3rd launch as well as 2nd 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 spacecraft booster failing, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also safe landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months later on, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also served as a trip designer aboard the spaceport station during Expeditions 59 as well as 60. Hague performed three spacewalks to upgrade space station electrical power devices and also put up a docking adapter for industrial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Room Pressure, Hague completed a developing turning at the Self defense Team, and worked as the Space Force's supervisor of exam as well as assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to obligations at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Plan until this air travel task. Adhere To @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will definitely be actually Gorbunov's very first journey to room and also the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he examined design along with qualifications in space capsule and top stages from the Moscow Flying Institute. Gorbunov finished coming from the armed forces department with a specialized in operating and also repairing aircraft, choppers, and airplane engines. Just before his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as a developer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia as well as sustained cargo space probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Exploration 72 workers aboard the station. They will sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner conducting clinical study and also upkeep activities right into the station's 24th year of ongoing human visibility.Learn more about International Space Station study and functions 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.