.Editor's note: This release was upgraded two times on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to repair Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's function as a mission professional. It was upgraded once more to deal with a launch day.NASA astronaut Chip Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, previously declared as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a future objective..Hague as well as Gorbunov will fly to the space station as leader and also purpose expert, respectively, as portion of a two-crew element flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved staff supplement adheres to NASA's decision to return the agency's Boeing Staff Tour Exam uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 along with pair of unoccupied chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to flight home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to fly Hague was actually created through NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba had to balance flying a NASA workers participant along with previous spaceflight adventure to influence the flight, while ensuring NASA maintains an integrated staff with a Roscosmos astronaut that can easily function their critical bodies for continued, secure terminal operations." While our experts have actually altered workers prior to for a wide array of explanations, downsizing crew for this tour was actually one more tough decision to adapt to considered that the team has actually educated as a crew of 4," said Acaba. "I have miraculous assurance with all our workers, that have actually been excellent throughout training for the purpose. Zena as well as Stephanie will remain to assist their crewmates before launch, and also they exemplify what it implies to become a professional astronaut.".The firm will share reassignment details for Cardman and Wilson when offered." I am actually deeply pleased with our whole crew," stated Cardman, "and I am self-assured Chip and also Alex will certainly enter their duties along with excellence. All four of us continue to be specialized to the success of this particular purpose, and Stephanie as well as I await piloting when the moment is right.".Wilson added, "I recognize Scar and Alex will certainly perform a terrific job with their work aboard the International Space Station as part of Trip 72.".With 203 times visited area, this will certainly be Hague's 3rd launch and 2nd purpose to the orbiting research laboratory. Throughout his 1st launch in Oct 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer breakdown, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as worked as an air travel designer aboard the spaceport station throughout Expeditions 59 and also 60. Hague administered three spacewalks to improve spaceport station power devices as well as put in a docking adapter for commercial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Force, Hague completed a developmental rotation at the Protection Team, as well as functioned as the Space Pressure's director of exam as well as analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to duties at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner System until this tour job. Adhere To @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will certainly be actually Gorbunov's very first journey to area as well as the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he analyzed design with qualifications in spacecraft and also top stages coming from the Moscow Aeronautics Institute. Gorbunov finished coming from the army department with a specialized in operating and mending plane, helicopters, as well as aircraft engines. Before his collection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he worked as a developer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia as well as supported freight spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Trip 72 staff aboard the station. They are going to join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner conducting scientific analysis and also servicing tasks in to the station's 24th year of continual individual existence.Learn more about International Space Station research study and also 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.