.Editor's note: This release was updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to improve Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as an objective professional. It was upgraded once more to repair a launch date.NASA rocketeer Chip Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, formerly declared as crewmates, are actually entitled for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to pilot to the spaceport station as commander and objective specialist, respectively, as portion of a two-crew air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded staff complement follows NASA's decision to come back the company's Boeing Team Flight Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with pair of uninhabited chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to take flight home along with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to flight Hague was actually created by NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba had to stabilize flying a NASA team member with previous spaceflight adventure to regulate the trip, while ensuring NASA maintains an incorporated team along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can easily operate their critical units for carried on, secure station functions." While our company've transformed team just before for an assortment of main reasons, scaling down crew for this tour was actually yet another tough selection to get used to dued to the fact that the staff has taught as a staff of 4," mentioned Acaba. "I have the utmost confidence in each our team, who have actually been outstanding throughout training for the purpose. Zena and also Stephanie will remain to assist their crewmates ahead of launch, and they show what it means to be a specialist astronaut.".The organization will share reassignment information for Cardman and also Wilson when on call." I am actually greatly pleased with our whole entire workers," pointed out Cardman, "and also I am confident Nick and also Alex will certainly enter their duties with excellence. All 4 people stay specialized to the effectiveness of this purpose, and also Stephanie and I anticipate flighting when the amount of time is right.".Wilson included, "I know Chip and also Alex will definitely perform an excellent job along with their job aboard the International Space Station as portion of Trip 72.".Along with 203 times logged in area, this are going to be actually Hague's 3rd launch as well as second purpose to the orbiting lab. During his 1st launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failing, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months later, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as functioned as a tour designer aboard the spaceport station during Explorations 59 as well as 60. Hague conducted 3 spacewalks to upgrade space station electrical power devices and also mount a docking adapter for commercial space probe. An active-duty colonel in the USA Area Pressure, Hague completed a developmental rotation at the Defense Department, and acted as the Room Force's director of test and also analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed responsibilities at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Plan until this trip assignment. Adhere To @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will be actually Gorbunov's first excursion to room and also the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he examined engineering with credentials in space capsule and higher phases from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov finished coming from the military team along with a specialty in operating and also restoring plane, helicopters, and also plane engines. Just before his variety as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as an engineer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia and also supported freight spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov are going to become members of the Trip 72 workers aboard the station. They are going to sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner conducting medical research study as well as maintenance tasks in to the station's 24th year of ongoing individual visibility.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station study and 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.