.Editor's details: This release was upgraded two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to repair Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as a purpose professional. It was actually improved once more to deal with a launch date.NASA rocketeer Chip Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, formerly revealed as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a future goal..Hague and also Gorbunov will flight to the space station as leader as well as purpose expert, respectively, as aspect of a two-crew tour aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded crew complement follows NASA's choice to come back the agency's Boeing Team Air travel Examination uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 along with pair of uninhabited chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, are going to flight home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to pilot Hague was made through NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to stabilize flighting a NASA workers member with previous spaceflight adventure to command the tour, while guaranteeing NASA maintains an incorporated team with a Roscosmos astronaut who may function their crucial bodies for carried on, safe terminal procedures." While our team have actually transformed workers prior to for a variety of causes, downsizing crew for this flight was yet another challenging selection to adjust to considered that the crew has taught as a staff of four," claimed Acaba. "I have the utmost assurance in each our crew, who have been actually exceptional throughout training for the goal. Zena and Stephanie will certainly continue to help their crewmates in advance of launch, as well as they show what it implies to become a specialist astronaut.".The organization will definitely share reassignment information for Cardman as well as Wilson when accessible." I am greatly proud of our whole entire crew," claimed Cardman, "and I am actually certain Chip as well as Alex will certainly enter their jobs with superiority. All four of us remain devoted to the effectiveness of this goal, and also Stephanie and I look forward to piloting when the amount of time is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I recognize Scar as well as Alex will certainly carry out a wonderful task along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 days visited area, this will definitely be Hague's third launch and also second objective to the orbiting laboratory. During the course of his 1st launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failing, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and risk-free touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months later on, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also served as a tour engineer aboard the space station throughout Expeditions 59 and 60. Hague administered 3 spacewalks to improve space station power devices and also put up a docking adapter for industrial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Space Force, Hague finished a developmental turning at the Self defense Team, and also functioned as the Room Power's supervisor of examination and also assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to obligations at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner Plan up until this air travel project. Adhere To @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will be Gorbunov's first journey to space and the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he studied engineering along with credentials in space probe and upper stages from the Moscow Aviation Principle. Gorbunov graduated from the army division with a specialized in operating and also repairing aircraft, helicopters, and airplane motors. Prior to his variety as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as an engineer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia as well as sustained payload space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov are going to enter of the Exploration 72 team aboard the terminal. They are going to join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner conducting medical research and also routine maintenance activities in to the station's 24th year of continual individual presence.Discover more regarding International Space Station research and procedures 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.