.Editor's note: This launch was upgraded two times on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to remedy Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a goal expert. It was actually updated once again to correct a launch date.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, earlier announced as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague as well as Gorbunov are going to take flight to the spaceport station as commander and also mission expert, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew air travel aboard a SpaceX Monster.The updated team complement complies with NASA's selection to return the agency's Boeing Staff Flight Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with pair of vacant chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, who introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to fly home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to fly Hague was created by NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Acaba needed to harmonize taking flight a NASA staff member with previous spaceflight experience to command the flight, while guaranteeing NASA maintains an incorporated crew with a Roscosmos astronaut that can operate their essential devices for continued, risk-free terminal procedures." While we've changed workers just before for a wide array of factors, downsizing team for this flight was yet another hard selection to get used to dued to the fact that the team has taught as a workers of 4," pointed out Acaba. "I possess miraculous assurance in all our staff, who have actually been actually excellent throughout instruction for the mission. Zena as well as Stephanie will certainly continue to support their crewmates in advance of launch, and they exemplify what it indicates to become an expert rocketeer.".The firm is going to discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when accessible." I am heavily happy with our whole team," pointed out Cardman, "as well as I am self-assured Scar and Alex are going to step into their roles along with quality. All four people remain devoted to the effectiveness of this purpose, as well as Stephanie and also I expect taking flight when the amount of time corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I recognize Scar and also Alex will definitely perform a fantastic project with their work aboard the International Space Station as aspect of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 days visited area, this will certainly be actually Hague's third launch and second purpose to the orbiting laboratory. Throughout his 1st launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later on, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as functioned as a flight developer aboard the spaceport station during the course of Explorations 59 and also 60. Hague conducted three spacewalks to update space station power bodies and mount a docking adapter for business space probe. An active-duty colonel in the USA Space Pressure, Hague finished a developing turning at the Self defense Division, and also acted as the Room Pressure's supervisor of exam as well as examination from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to obligations at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Program until this air travel task. Comply With @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will be actually Gorbunov's 1st travel to space as well as the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he studied design along with certifications in spacecraft and also top phases from the Moscow Aeronautics Institute. Gorbunov earned a degree coming from the military department along with a specialty in operating as well as fixing aircraft, helicopters, and airplane motors. Prior to his option as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as a developer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia as well as sustained packages spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov are going to become members of the Trip 72 crew aboard the station. They will participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner carrying out clinical analysis and also upkeep tasks in to the station's 24th year of continuous individual presence.Learn more concerning International Space Station analysis as well as 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.