.Publisher's details: This launch was updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to repair Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's function as a goal specialist. It was improved once more to repair a launch time.NASA astronaut Chip Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, formerly announced as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a future purpose..Hague and Gorbunov will fly to the spaceport station as leader and also purpose expert, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated team enhance observes NASA's choice to return the organization's Boeing Workers Air travel Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with pair of vacant seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that released aboard the Starliner space probe in June, will fly home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to fly Hague was actually created through NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba must balance piloting a NASA workers member with previous spaceflight adventure to influence the trip, while making certain NASA keeps an incorporated staff with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can work their vital bodies for continued, risk-free terminal functions." While our experts've changed workers before for a range of explanations, scaling down team for this tour was an additional tough decision to get used to considered that the team has taught as a team of four," pointed out Acaba. "I have the utmost confidence in every our staff, who have been outstanding throughout instruction for the mission. Zena as well as Stephanie are going to remain to aid their crewmates in advance of launch, and they display what it means to become a professional rocketeer.".The organization will definitely discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman as well as Wilson when on call." I am actually greatly pleased with our entire team," claimed Cardman, "and also I am actually positive Chip as well as Alex will definitely step into their tasks with excellence. All four people continue to be specialized to the excellence of this purpose, as well as Stephanie and also I expect taking flight when the moment corrects.".Wilson added, "I recognize Scar as well as Alex will do a terrific project along with their job aboard the International Space Station as portion of Exploration 72.".With 203 days logged in space, this are going to be Hague's third launch as well as second mission to the orbiting research laboratory. In the course of his first launch in October 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer failing, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months eventually, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as functioned as a tour developer aboard the space station throughout Explorations 59 and also 60. Hague performed three spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station energy systems and also install a docking adapter for business space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Power, Hague accomplished a developing turning at the Protection Department, and also functioned as the Area Pressure's director of test and also analysis from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed tasks at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Course until this tour assignment. Comply With @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's 1st travel to room as well as the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he studied design with qualifications in space probe and upper stages coming from the Moscow Flying Principle. Gorbunov graduated coming from the armed forces department with a specialty in operating as well as fixing plane, helicopters, and airplane engines. Just before his selection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he worked as an engineer for Rocket Room Corp. Energia and assisted packages space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to become members of the Trip 72 workers aboard the terminal. They are going to participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner carrying out medical study and also maintenance tasks right into the terminal's 24th year of ongoing individual presence.Find out more regarding International Spaceport station investigation 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.