.Publisher's note: This release was updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to improve Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as a goal expert. It was upgraded once more to remedy a launch date.NASA rocketeer Chip Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, formerly declared as crewmates, are actually entitled for reassignment on a potential goal..Hague as well as Gorbunov will fly to the space station as commander and also objective specialist, specifically, as part of a two-crew element air travel aboard a SpaceX Monster.The improved team enhance complies with NASA's selection to come back the agency's Boeing Staff Air travel Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with two abandoned chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will pilot home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to fly Hague was actually made through NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to stabilize piloting a NASA team participant with previous spaceflight expertise to control the air travel, while making sure NASA keeps an incorporated workers along with a Roscosmos astronaut that can easily function their critical devices for continued, safe terminal operations." While our team've transformed team just before for a wide array of reasons, downsizing workers for this tour was actually yet another difficult choice to get used to given that the workers has qualified as a team of four," mentioned Acaba. "I possess the utmost peace of mind in every our staff, that have been outstanding throughout training for the objective. Zena and Stephanie will definitely continue to assist their crewmates before launch, and also they show what it implies to become an expert rocketeer.".The firm will definitely discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when on call." I am actually heavily pleased with our entire staff," stated Cardman, "and I am certain Scar and Alex are going to enter their duties with superiority. All four people stay dedicated to the effectiveness of this mission, and Stephanie and also I await flying when the amount of time is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I understand Scar as well as Alex will carry out a terrific work along with their work aboard the International Space Station as aspect of Trip 72.".Along with 203 times logged in space, this are going to be actually Hague's third launch and also 2nd purpose to the orbiting laboratory. Throughout his 1st launch in Oct 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failing, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months later, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and worked as an air travel engineer aboard the space station during Expeditions 59 and also 60. Hague conducted three spacewalks to improve space station electrical power systems as well as set up a docking adapter for business space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the USA Room Force, Hague completed a developing turning at the Protection Team, as well as served as the Space Power's supervisor of examination and also assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed roles at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner System till this tour job. Follow @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will definitely be actually Gorbunov's very first excursion to area and also the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he analyzed engineering along with certifications in space capsule as well as upper stages coming from the Moscow Air Travel Institute. Gorbunov graduated coming from the military department along with a specialized in operating and mending airplane, choppers, and also plane motors. Prior to his assortment as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as a designer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia and also sustained cargo space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Trip 72 team aboard the station. They are going to join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner administering medical research study and routine maintenance activities in to the terminal's 24th year of ongoing individual existence.Find out more regarding International Spaceport station research study and also functions 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.