.Publisher's keep in mind: This launch was updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to remedy Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as a purpose professional. It was actually updated once again to fix a launch time.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, earlier announced as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a future mission..Hague and Gorbunov will take flight to the space station as leader and also purpose professional, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew flight aboard a SpaceX Monster.The updated team complement observes NASA's choice to return the company's Boeing Workers Flight Examination uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with 2 unoccupied chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who released aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will pilot home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to pilot Hague was made through NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba must harmonize piloting a NASA workers participant with previous spaceflight knowledge to command the tour, while making sure NASA preserves an incorporated workers with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who may operate their crucial units for proceeded, safe terminal operations." While we have actually modified workers just before for a wide array of reasons, scaling down crew for this trip was one more difficult selection to adapt to considered that the team has actually taught as a crew of 4," stated Acaba. "I have the utmost assurance in all our crew, that have been actually outstanding throughout training for the goal. Zena and Stephanie will certainly remain to support their crewmates before launch, and they show what it implies to become an expert astronaut.".The agency will certainly discuss reassignment information for Cardman as well as Wilson when readily available." I am actually heavily proud of our whole crew," mentioned Cardman, "and I am certain Nick as well as Alex will enter their duties along with superiority. All four people remain specialized to the excellence of this particular mission, and also Stephanie as well as I look forward to piloting when the amount of time is right.".Wilson added, "I know Nick and also Alex will definitely do a terrific work along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as component of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 times visited room, this will certainly be actually Hague's third launch and 2nd objective to the orbiting laboratory. During the course of his 1st launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer breakdown, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and secure landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months later, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also served as an air travel engineer aboard the space station throughout Trips 59 and also 60. Hague carried out three spacewalks to improve space station power units and put in a docking adapter for office space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Pressure, Hague accomplished a developmental rotation at the Defense Division, as well as acted as the Space Force's supervisor of test as well as assessment coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed responsibilities at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Program till this air travel job. Adhere To @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will be actually Gorbunov's very first trip to room and the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he studied design along with credentials in spacecraft and also higher phases coming from the Moscow Air Travel Institute. Gorbunov finished from the army division with a specialized in operating and restoring aircraft, helicopters, and also airplane motors. Before his variety as an astronaut in 2018, he operated as an engineer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia as well as sustained payload space probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will enter of the Trip 72 crew aboard the terminal. They will definitely join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner carrying out scientific investigation and also upkeep activities right into the station's 24th year of constant individual presence.Find out more concerning International Spaceport station research as well as operations 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.