.Editor's keep in mind: This launch was actually improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to remedy Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a mission expert. It was actually updated once more to correct a launch day.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, earlier revealed as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a future objective..Hague as well as Gorbunov will flight to the spaceport station as commander and also purpose specialist, specifically, as part of a two-crew flight aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded workers enhance adheres to NASA's choice to come back the organization's Boeing Workers Flight Examination uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with pair of abandoned seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, are going to fly home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to take flight Hague was created through NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba must stabilize flying a NASA team participant with previous spaceflight experience to regulate the flight, while guaranteeing NASA preserves an integrated workers along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can easily operate their essential devices for carried on, secure station operations." While we have actually altered crew just before for a range of factors, scaling down team for this tour was actually an additional challenging choice to get used to dued to the fact that the workers has taught as a staff of four," claimed Acaba. "I have the utmost confidence with all our staff, who have been exceptional throughout instruction for the mission. Zena and also Stephanie are going to remain to support their crewmates in advance of launch, and they display what it suggests to be a qualified rocketeer.".The organization will certainly share reassignment details for Cardman and Wilson when on call." I am actually deeply pleased with our entire team," claimed Cardman, "as well as I am actually self-assured Chip as well as Alex will definitely step into their jobs with superiority. All four people remain committed to the effectiveness of the purpose, and also Stephanie as well as I expect taking flight when the time corrects.".Wilson included, "I know Nick and Alex are going to perform a great task along with their work aboard the International Space Station as portion of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 times visited room, this are going to be actually Hague's third launch and also 2nd mission to the orbiting lab. During his 1st launch in Oct 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failing, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also secure landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months later, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and worked as a flight designer aboard the spaceport station during the course of Explorations 59 and also 60. Hague administered 3 spacewalks to update space station energy bodies as well as put in a docking adapter for business space probe. An active-duty colonel in the united state Room Power, Hague completed a developing rotation at the Self defense Department, and also worked as the Area Pressure's director of exam as well as examination from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed obligations at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner Course up until this flight job. Adhere To @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will be actually Gorbunov's 1st journey to space and also the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he studied engineering with credentials in space capsule as well as upper phases from the Moscow Flying Institute. Gorbunov graduated from the armed forces division with a specialized in operating and also restoring aircraft, choppers, as well as airplane engines. Before his assortment as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as an engineer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia and also supported payload spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Trip 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will certainly participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner conducting clinical research study and also upkeep activities into the station's 24th year of continuous individual existence.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station research 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.