.Publisher's note: This release was actually upgraded two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to correct Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's function as an objective professional. It was actually improved again to repair a launch date.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, earlier declared as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a potential goal..Hague as well as Gorbunov will fly to the spaceport station as leader and also goal specialist, specifically, as component of a two-crew member trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated crew supplement follows NASA's selection to return the organization's Boeing Team Tour Exam uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with pair of uninhabited chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that released aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to take flight home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to pilot Hague was made through NASA principal astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba had to stabilize piloting a NASA staff member along with previous spaceflight expertise to control the trip, while ensuring NASA preserves an incorporated staff along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that may run their essential systems for continued, risk-free station operations." While our experts have actually modified staff before for a variety of explanations, scaling down staff for this air travel was actually another tough selection to adjust to given that the team has actually taught as a crew of 4," stated Acaba. "I possess the utmost self-confidence in every our team, who have actually been actually outstanding throughout training for the purpose. Zena and Stephanie are going to continue to help their crewmates before launch, as well as they exemplify what it implies to be a specialist rocketeer.".The organization is going to share reassignment information for Cardman and also Wilson when readily available." I am actually greatly happy with our entire team," pointed out Cardman, "and also I am actually self-assured Nick and Alex are going to step into their jobs along with excellence. All four people continue to be committed to the excellence of this particular purpose, as well as Stephanie and I await piloting when the moment is right.".Wilson added, "I know Scar as well as Alex are going to carry out a wonderful task along with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Trip 72.".With 203 days logged in area, this will definitely be Hague's 3rd launch and 2nd objective to the orbiting lab. In the course of his 1st launch in Oct 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months later, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also acted as an air travel engineer aboard the space station during the course of Trips 59 and 60. Hague performed 3 spacewalks to update spaceport station electrical power devices as well as mount a docking adapter for commercial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the USA Area Power, Hague finished a developmental rotation at the Self defense Team, and worked as the Space Pressure's supervisor of exam and also evaluation from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to tasks at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Program up until this air travel project. Follow @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will be Gorbunov's 1st trip to space as well as the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he examined engineering along with qualifications in spacecraft and top stages coming from the Moscow Flying Principle. Gorbunov finished coming from the armed forces division with a specialized in operating and also mending plane, helicopters, and also aircraft engines. Just before his collection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as a developer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia and sustained packages space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will enter of the Trip 72 crew aboard the terminal. They will certainly join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner conducting medical research study as well as servicing tasks into the station's 24th year of ongoing human visibility.Find out more regarding International Spaceport station research study as well as operations 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.