.Editor's note: This launch was actually improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to improve Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's part as a mission specialist. It was upgraded once more to deal with a launch time.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, earlier revealed as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a future mission..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to take flight to the space station as commander as well as goal expert, specifically, as part of a two-crew element air travel aboard a SpaceX Monster.The updated workers enhance observes NASA's selection to come back the organization's Boeing Workers Flight Examination uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with 2 empty seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will fly home along with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to flight Hague was created by NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba had to harmonize flying a NASA crew member along with previous spaceflight expertise to control the air travel, while making certain NASA preserves an integrated workers with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can easily work their important devices for proceeded, secure terminal operations." While our team have actually altered crew prior to for a variety of factors, downsizing crew for this flight was another difficult choice to adapt to given that the crew has actually educated as a staff of four," said Acaba. "I possess miraculous confidence in each our workers, who have actually been excellent throughout instruction for the purpose. Zena and also Stephanie will definitely continue to assist their crewmates in advance of launch, and they exhibit what it implies to become a specialist astronaut.".The firm will definitely discuss reassignment details for Cardman and also Wilson when offered." I am greatly proud of our whole entire staff," said Cardman, "as well as I am certain Chip and also Alex are going to step into their parts along with distinction. All 4 of us stay dedicated to the effectiveness of the objective, and also Stephanie and also I await flying when the time corrects.".Wilson added, "I know Scar and also Alex will carry out a fantastic work along with their job aboard the International Space Station as portion of Exploration 72.".With 203 days visited space, this will definitely be actually Hague's third launch and also 2nd mission to the orbiting laboratory. Throughout his very first launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer failing, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also safe landing in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. Five months eventually, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as served as a tour developer aboard the space station during the course of Trips 59 and also 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to update space station power systems as well as put up a docking adapter for industrial space probe. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Space Pressure, Hague completed a developmental rotation at the Self defense Team, as well as worked as the Space Power's supervisor of examination and assessment coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed tasks at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner Course until this trip project. Adhere To @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This are going to be actually Gorbunov's first trip to room and also the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he examined engineering with certifications in spacecraft as well as upper stages from the Moscow Air Travel Institute. Gorbunov earned a degree coming from the military division along with a specialty in operating and restoring aircraft, choppers, and also plane engines. Before his selection as an astronaut in 2018, he functioned as an engineer for Rocket Room Corp. Energia and supported payload space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will enter of the Exploration 72 workers aboard the terminal. They are going to participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner conducting medical study as well as upkeep tasks in to the station's 24th year of continuous individual presence.Discover more regarding International Space 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.