.Editor's note: This launch was improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to fix Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a mission expert. It was upgraded once again to improve a launch date.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, earlier introduced as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a future mission..Hague and also Gorbunov will take flight to the spaceport station as commander and objective expert, specifically, as component of a two-crew trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved staff complement adheres to NASA's choice to come back the organization's Boeing Crew Tour Examination uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 along with 2 vacant seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who released aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, are going to pilot home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to fly Hague was actually created through NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to balance piloting a NASA staff participant with previous spaceflight experience to influence the air travel, while ensuring NASA preserves an integrated staff along with a Roscosmos astronaut who can easily operate their important systems for continued, secure terminal procedures." While our company've modified workers before for a range of main reasons, downsizing crew for this tour was actually yet another tough selection to get used to given that the staff has actually taught as a workers of 4," pointed out Acaba. "I have miraculous peace of mind in all our staff, who have been excellent throughout training for the mission. Zena as well as Stephanie will certainly remain to assist their crewmates in advance of launch, and they exemplify what it means to be a professional astronaut.".The organization will definitely discuss reassignment information for Cardman and also Wilson when offered." I am profoundly pleased with our whole entire workers," mentioned Cardman, "as well as I am actually self-assured Scar as well as Alex will certainly enter their parts with distinction. All 4 of us remain dedicated to the effectiveness of this particular objective, as well as Stephanie as well as I anticipate piloting when the moment corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I recognize Chip and also Alex will definitely carry out a wonderful task along with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 days logged in area, this will be Hague's 3rd launch and also 2nd objective to the orbiting laboratory. Throughout his first launch in Oct 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failing, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as functioned as a trip designer aboard the spaceport station throughout Expeditions 59 as well as 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to improve spaceport station electrical power systems as well as put in a docking adapter for office spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Space Force, Hague accomplished a developmental turning at the Protection Team, as well as served as the Room Power's supervisor of examination and evaluation from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed duties at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner System till this flight task. Observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This are going to be Gorbunov's first travel to area and also the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he researched engineering with credentials in spacecraft as well as higher phases coming from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Gorbunov got a degree from the military division along with a specialty in operating and restoring airplane, helicopters, and also airplane motors. Prior to his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as a developer for Rocket Room Corp. Energia and assisted cargo spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will enter of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner conducting clinical research study as well as routine maintenance activities right into the terminal's 24th year of constant human visibility.Discover more about International Spaceport station analysis and operations 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.