.Publisher's keep in mind: This release was improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to remedy Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a purpose professional. It was improved again to deal with a launch time.NASA astronaut Nick Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, earlier introduced as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a future goal..Hague as well as Gorbunov will fly to the spaceport station as commander as well as purpose professional, specifically, as portion of a two-crew flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated staff supplement observes NASA's decision to return the firm's Boeing Staff Flight Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with two empty seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to fly home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to flight Hague was created by NASA principal astronaut Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba had to harmonize flighting a NASA staff participant with previous spaceflight expertise to influence the tour, while making sure NASA sustains an incorporated workers along with a Roscosmos astronaut who can run their important bodies for continued, risk-free terminal operations." While we've transformed staff prior to for a range of main reasons, downsizing staff for this air travel was actually yet another tough decision to get used to given that the staff has actually trained as a workers of four," claimed Acaba. "I possess the utmost peace of mind in each our workers, who have actually been great throughout training for the purpose. Zena and Stephanie will remain to help their crewmates in front of launch, and also they exhibit what it indicates to be a professional astronaut.".The firm will certainly share reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when available." I am deeply proud of our whole workers," stated Cardman, "and I am actually self-assured Chip and Alex will step into their roles with excellence. All 4 people stay dedicated to the effectiveness of this goal, as well as Stephanie and I anticipate flying when the time is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I know Chip and also Alex will perform a terrific job with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as part of Expedition 72.".With 203 times visited space, this are going to be actually Hague's third launch as well as second mission to the orbiting research laboratory. During the course of his very first launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failure, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months eventually, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as worked as an air travel engineer aboard the space station in the course of Trips 59 and 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station energy bodies as well as put up a docking adapter for commercial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Room Pressure, Hague completed a developmental rotation at the Self defense Division, and also served as the Area Pressure's supervisor of examination and also examination coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed responsibilities at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner System until this air travel job. Adhere To @astrohague on X and Instagram.This are going to be Gorbunov's initial trip to room and the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he analyzed engineering with qualifications in spacecraft and higher phases from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov got a degree from the armed forces division with a specialized in operating and repairing plane, helicopters, and also airplane engines. Just before his choice as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as a designer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia and assisted packages space probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will enter of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the station. They will sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner administering clinical analysis and also routine maintenance tasks in to the terminal's 24th year of continual individual visibility.Find out more regarding International Spaceport station investigation 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.