.Editor's note: This release was actually updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to fix Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as a mission professional. It was updated once again to correct a launch date.NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, earlier revealed as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a future mission..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to fly to the space station as leader as well as purpose specialist, respectively, as part of a two-crew trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated workers supplement follows NASA's decision to come back the firm's Boeing Team Trip Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with 2 unoccupied seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will flight home along with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to take flight Hague was made through NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba must stabilize piloting a NASA crew participant with previous spaceflight expertise to regulate the flight, while ensuring NASA sustains an incorporated workers along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can function their important units for continued, safe terminal functions." While our team've modified crew prior to for a selection of causes, scaling down workers for this tour was an additional tough choice to adapt to dued to the fact that the workers has educated as a team of 4," claimed Acaba. "I have the utmost peace of mind with all our team, that have been actually excellent throughout training for the mission. Zena as well as Stephanie will certainly continue to assist their crewmates in advance of launch, as well as they show what it suggests to be a specialist rocketeer.".The firm will certainly share reassignment information for Cardman and Wilson when readily available." I am greatly happy with our whole crew," mentioned Cardman, "and also I am positive Chip and also Alex will definitely step into their tasks along with quality. All four of us remain dedicated to the excellence of the objective, and also Stephanie and I look forward to piloting when the time is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I recognize Scar as well as Alex will certainly carry out a fantastic project with their work aboard the International Space Station as portion of Exploration 72.".With 203 times logged in space, this will definitely be Hague's 3rd launch and 2nd purpose to the orbiting laboratory. During the course of his initial launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster breakdown, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as secure landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months eventually, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as served as a flight designer aboard the spaceport station throughout Trips 59 as well as 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station power systems and install a docking adapter for business space probe. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Area Force, Hague finished a developmental rotation at the Defense Department, as well as functioned as the Area Power's supervisor of test and also analysis from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to tasks at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Plan until this tour job. Comply With @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This are going to be Gorbunov's very first journey to room as well as the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he studied engineering along with certifications in space probe and higher phases from the Moscow Flying Institute. Gorbunov earned a degree coming from the armed forces department with a specialty in operating and fixing airplane, choppers, as well as aircraft motors. Before his assortment as an astronaut in 2018, he functioned as a developer for Rocket Room Corp. Energia and sustained freight space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov are going to become members of the Trip 72 crew aboard the station. They will certainly participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner conducting clinical study and also routine maintenance tasks right into the station's 24th year of continual individual visibility.Find out more about International Spaceport station study and also 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.