.Publisher's details: This release was upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to fix Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's function as a mission professional. It was updated once again to correct a launch date.NASA astronaut Chip Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, earlier announced as crewmates, are actually entitled for reassignment on a potential mission..Hague as well as Gorbunov will pilot to the space station as commander and mission professional, specifically, as part of a two-crew flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded team supplement complies with NASA's selection to come back the company's Boeing Team Trip Exam uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 along with pair of vacant seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who released aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to fly home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to take flight Hague was created through NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba must balance piloting a NASA staff participant along with previous spaceflight expertise to regulate the flight, while ensuring NASA sustains an integrated team with a Roscosmos astronaut who can function their crucial systems for continued, safe station operations." While our experts've altered team before for a selection of causes, scaling down crew for this air travel was an additional difficult decision to adjust to given that the crew has qualified as a staff of four," said Acaba. "I possess miraculous peace of mind in each our crew, that have actually been exceptional throughout training for the purpose. Zena and Stephanie are going to continue to assist their crewmates before launch, and also they exhibit what it suggests to become a qualified rocketeer.".The agency is going to discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when on call." I am actually greatly pleased with our entire workers," said Cardman, "and I am positive Scar and Alex are going to enter their parts along with quality. All four people continue to be specialized to the results of this mission, and Stephanie as well as I anticipate flying when the amount of time is right.".Wilson included, "I understand Chip and Alex will definitely do a wonderful job with their work aboard the International Space Station as portion of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 days visited room, this will definitely be actually Hague's 3rd launch as well as second goal to the orbiting research laboratory. Throughout his 1st launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer failure, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months later on, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also worked as a tour developer aboard the spaceport station during Expeditions 59 and 60. Hague conducted 3 spacewalks to improve space station energy devices and mount a docking adapter for office space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the USA Area Pressure, Hague accomplished a developmental rotation at the Protection Division, as well as worked as the Space Power's supervisor of exam and also assessment coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to responsibilities at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Plan until this tour project. Observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will be actually Gorbunov's very first excursion to room and the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he researched engineering along with credentials in spacecraft and also higher phases from the Moscow Flying Institute. Gorbunov finished coming from the military team along with a specialty in operating and fixing airplane, helicopters, as well as aircraft motors. Before his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as a designer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia and also sustained payload spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Trip 72 workers aboard the station. They will join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner performing clinical research study and also maintenance activities into the terminal's 24th year of continual human visibility.Discover more about International Spaceport station investigation and functions 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.