.Publisher's note: This release was updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to remedy Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as a purpose professional. It was actually updated once again to remedy a launch date.NASA astronaut Chip Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, previously introduced as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a future objective..Hague and also Gorbunov will fly to the space station as leader as well as goal expert, respectively, as part of a two-crew element tour aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved team enhance adheres to NASA's decision to come back the organization's Boeing Staff Tour Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with 2 vacant seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who released aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will fly home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to fly Hague was actually made by NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba had to stabilize taking flight a NASA staff participant along with previous spaceflight experience to regulate the tour, while making sure NASA sustains an integrated crew with a Roscosmos astronaut who may work their important systems for carried on, safe station procedures." While our team have actually altered team just before for a range of explanations, downsizing crew for this trip was actually an additional difficult decision to adjust to considered that the workers has trained as a crew of 4," claimed Acaba. "I possess miraculous confidence in every our workers, that have been actually great throughout instruction for the objective. Zena as well as Stephanie are going to remain to assist their crewmates before launch, and they exemplify what it suggests to be a qualified astronaut.".The agency will share reassignment information for Cardman and Wilson when on call." I am actually deeply pleased with our whole team," mentioned Cardman, "as well as I am actually self-assured Chip and Alex will definitely step into their roles with distinction. All 4 people continue to be committed to the success of this purpose, as well as Stephanie and also I anticipate taking flight when the time is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I know Nick and Alex are going to perform a terrific task with their job aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72.".With 203 days visited space, this are going to be actually Hague's 3rd launch and also 2nd goal to the orbiting laboratory. During the course of his initial launch in Oct 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster breakdown, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also safe landing in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and functioned as a flight engineer aboard the space station in the course of Explorations 59 as well as 60. Hague performed three spacewalks to update space station power units and put up a docking adapter for industrial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the USA Space Power, Hague accomplished a developmental rotation at the Self defense Team, and also acted as the Room Power's supervisor of exam and also assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed tasks at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner Plan until this flight job. Adhere To @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will certainly be actually Gorbunov's very first trip to area and the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he researched design with qualifications in space probe and upper stages from the Moscow Air Travel Institute. Gorbunov graduated from the armed forces division with a specialized in operating and restoring aircraft, helicopters, and also plane motors. Before his variety as an astronaut in 2018, he functioned as a designer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia as well as supported cargo spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to become members of the Expedition 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will definitely join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner carrying out clinical analysis and also upkeep activities in to the station's 24th year of ongoing individual existence.Learn more about International Spaceport station study and also procedures 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.