.Publisher's note: This release was upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to remedy Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a goal expert. It was actually upgraded once more to repair a launch day.NASA astronaut Chip Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, earlier introduced as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a future purpose..Hague as well as Gorbunov are going to take flight to the space station as commander and purpose expert, respectively, as aspect of a two-crew flight aboard a SpaceX Monster.The updated team enhance observes NASA's choice to return the organization's Boeing Team Flight Examination uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with pair of deserted seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to pilot home along with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to pilot Hague was created by NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba must harmonize taking flight a NASA staff member along with previous spaceflight expertise to command the flight, while ensuring NASA maintains an integrated crew with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that may work their essential systems for continued, safe station operations." While our team have actually transformed workers just before for a range of factors, downsizing team for this trip was actually yet another hard decision to adjust to given that the crew has actually trained as a staff of 4," claimed Acaba. "I have the utmost confidence in every our team, that have been actually superb throughout training for the goal. Zena and also Stephanie are going to continue to aid their crewmates ahead of launch, and they display what it implies to become a specialist rocketeer.".The agency will share reassignment information for Cardman and Wilson when readily available." I am actually profoundly pleased with our entire team," claimed Cardman, "and I am certain Chip as well as Alex will enter their parts with excellence. All four of us remain specialized to the excellence of the goal, and Stephanie and also I expect piloting when the time corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I understand Chip as well as Alex will certainly perform an excellent job along with their work aboard the International Space Station as portion of Expedition 72.".With 203 days visited room, this will definitely be actually Hague's 3rd launch and also 2nd goal to the orbiting laboratory. Throughout his 1st launch in Oct 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failing, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as risk-free touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months later on, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as functioned as an air travel developer aboard the spaceport station in the course of Explorations 59 and also 60. Hague carried out three spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station energy units and also put in a docking adapter for office space probe. An active-duty colonel in the united state Room Force, Hague accomplished a developmental turning at the Protection Division, as well as served as the Space Pressure's supervisor of test and assessment coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed obligations at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner System until this air travel task. Observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This are going to be Gorbunov's initial excursion to area as well as the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he examined design along with credentials in space capsule and top stages from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov graduated coming from the military team with a specialty in operating and also fixing plane, helicopters, and also aircraft motors. Just before his collection as an astronaut in 2018, he operated as a designer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia and also assisted freight space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Trip 72 team aboard the terminal. They will join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner carrying out scientific analysis as well as servicing tasks into the station's 24th year of continuous individual visibility.Find out more about International Spaceport station study as well as procedures 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.