.Editor's note: This release was updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to fix Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a goal professional. It was actually improved again to repair a launch time.NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, earlier introduced as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a future mission..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to fly to the space station as leader as well as mission expert, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew element air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved workers enhance follows NASA's selection to return the company's Boeing Workers Flight Examination uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with pair of empty chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will flight home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to pilot Hague was created through NASA chief rocketeer Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba had to harmonize flighting a NASA team participant along with previous spaceflight adventure to control the trip, while making certain NASA keeps an integrated team along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can easily work their vital systems for proceeded, risk-free station functions." While our experts have actually transformed crew just before for a selection of explanations, downsizing workers for this tour was actually an additional challenging decision to get used to considered that the crew has educated as a team of 4," mentioned Acaba. "I possess the utmost self-confidence in each our staff, that have actually been great throughout training for the mission. Zena and also Stephanie will certainly continue to aid their crewmates in front of launch, and also they show what it means to become a professional astronaut.".The organization will certainly discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when accessible." I am actually profoundly pleased with our whole entire workers," claimed Cardman, "and also I am positive Nick and also Alex will certainly step into their roles along with excellence. All four people stay devoted to the effectiveness of this particular mission, as well as Stephanie and also I eagerly anticipate taking flight when the moment is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I know Scar and Alex are going to perform an excellent task with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as component of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 days visited area, this will certainly be actually Hague's third launch and 2nd purpose to the orbiting research laboratory. In the course of his 1st launch in October 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer failure, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and secure landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as worked as an air travel designer aboard the spaceport station in the course of Explorations 59 and 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to update spaceport station electrical power bodies and also mount a docking adapter for business spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Space Power, Hague completed a developing rotation at the Defense Division, as well as served as the Space Force's director of examination and analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed tasks at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Program until this tour project. Comply With @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will be actually Gorbunov's 1st journey to room and the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he researched engineering with certifications in spacecraft and also top phases from the Moscow Flying Principle. Gorbunov earned a degree coming from the military team with a specialty in operating and also fixing plane, choppers, and aircraft engines. Just before his variety as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as a developer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia and also supported payload space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Trip 72 crew aboard the terminal. They will certainly sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner administering medical study and also routine maintenance activities into the station's 24th year of ongoing individual existence.Find out more about International Space 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.