.Editor's keep in mind: This release was actually updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to improve Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a mission expert. It was updated once more to improve a launch date.NASA astronaut Chip Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, earlier introduced as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a future mission..Hague and also Gorbunov will flight to the spaceport station as commander and also objective expert, respectively, as part of a two-crew trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved workers enhance adheres to NASA's decision to come back the agency's Boeing Workers Flight Examination uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with 2 vacant chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who released aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to flight home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to pilot Hague was actually made by NASA principal astronaut Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to harmonize taking flight a NASA staff member with previous spaceflight experience to control the air travel, while ensuring NASA sustains an integrated team with a Roscosmos astronaut that can function their vital bodies for continued, risk-free station operations." While our team've transformed staff prior to for a range of reasons, downsizing team for this air travel was actually one more tough decision to get used to considered that the team has actually trained as a crew of 4," stated Acaba. "I possess the utmost self-confidence in each our crew, who have actually been actually outstanding throughout instruction for the objective. Zena and also Stephanie will continue to assist their crewmates in front of launch, and also they embody what it indicates to become a qualified astronaut.".The company is going to share reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when accessible." I am actually deeply proud of our whole entire team," mentioned Cardman, "and I am self-assured Chip and also Alex will definitely step into their roles with superiority. All 4 of us continue to be dedicated to the results of the objective, and also Stephanie and I await flying when the time corrects.".Wilson added, "I recognize Nick and Alex will definitely do an excellent project with their work aboard the International Space Station as part of Trip 72.".With 203 times visited room, this will certainly be Hague's third launch as well as second purpose to the orbiting research laboratory. In the course of his initial launch in October 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as secure landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months later on, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also served as a trip engineer aboard the spaceport station throughout Trips 59 and also 60. Hague carried out three spacewalks to improve space station power units and also install a docking adapter for office space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Space Power, Hague finished a developmental turning at the Defense Team, as well as served as the Area Pressure's supervisor of exam and analysis from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to obligations at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner Program until this air travel project. Adhere To @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will be Gorbunov's initial travel to area as well as the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he analyzed engineering with credentials in space capsule as well as higher phases from the Moscow Aviation Principle. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the armed forces department along with a specialized in operating and repairing airplane, choppers, as well as aircraft engines. Before his choice as an astronaut in 2018, he operated as a developer for Rocket Room Corp. Energia and also supported freight spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Trip 72 crew aboard the station. They will join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner conducting clinical study and servicing activities right into the station's 24th year of continual human existence.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station study as well as 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.