.Editor's note: This launch was improved two times on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to improve Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as a purpose specialist. It was updated again to fix a launch time.NASA rocketeer Chip Hague as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, formerly introduced as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a future purpose..Hague as well as Gorbunov are going to pilot to the space station as commander and purpose professional, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew element air travel aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded team enhance observes NASA's decision to come back the agency's Boeing Staff Trip Exam uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with pair of uninhabited seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will take flight home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to take flight Hague was made by NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to stabilize piloting a NASA team participant with previous spaceflight adventure to control the tour, while making sure NASA preserves an integrated workers along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who may run their critical devices for carried on, secure station operations." While our team've modified team before for a selection of explanations, scaling down workers for this flight was an additional difficult decision to get used to considered that the team has educated as a crew of 4," claimed Acaba. "I have the utmost assurance in each our staff, who have actually been outstanding throughout training for the mission. Zena and Stephanie are going to continue to assist their crewmates in front of launch, and they exemplify what it suggests to be an expert astronaut.".The company will certainly discuss reassignment information for Cardman as well as Wilson when offered." I am greatly proud of our whole workers," claimed Cardman, "and also I am confident Scar as well as Alex are going to step into their functions with quality. All four people continue to be devoted to the success of the goal, and Stephanie and I look forward to flighting when the moment corrects.".Wilson included, "I understand Nick and also Alex will perform an excellent project with their work aboard the International Space Station as portion of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 times logged in room, this will definitely be actually Hague's 3rd launch as well as 2nd goal to the orbiting laboratory. In the course of his 1st launch in October 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 risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months later on, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and functioned as a trip engineer aboard the spaceport station in the course of Expeditions 59 and 60. Hague performed 3 spacewalks to update space station power devices as well as put in a docking adapter for business space probe. An active-duty colonel in the united state Room Force, Hague completed a developmental turning at the Protection Department, as well as functioned as the Space Force's supervisor of exam and also assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed duties at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner System up until this trip project. Comply With @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will certainly be actually Gorbunov's first trip to area and the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he examined design with credentials in space capsule and upper phases from the Moscow Flying Institute. Gorbunov graduated from the army department with a specialty in operating as well as mending plane, choppers, and airplane engines. Just before his selection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as an engineer for Spacecraft Area Corp. Energia and assisted freight spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to become members of the Trip 72 team aboard the station. They will definitely join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner performing clinical research as well as routine maintenance activities into the terminal's 24th year of ongoing human visibility.Discover more regarding International Space 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.