.Editor's note: This release was improved two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to deal with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's part as a mission expert. It was updated once more to repair a launch time.NASA astronaut Nick Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, formerly introduced as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a future goal..Hague and Gorbunov are going to flight to the spaceport station as commander and goal expert, respectively, as component of a two-crew member air travel aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded workers complement observes NASA's selection to return the firm's Boeing Team Flight Examination uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with two uninhabited chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will pilot home along with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to flight Hague was actually created by NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba must harmonize flying a NASA staff member along with previous spaceflight experience to command the air travel, while ensuring NASA keeps an integrated staff with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can easily operate their critical bodies for continued, risk-free terminal operations." While our company have actually changed staff just before for a range of reasons, downsizing staff for this tour was actually yet another hard choice to adjust to considered that the staff has qualified as a staff of 4," stated Acaba. "I have the utmost confidence with all our workers, that have been actually great throughout training for the purpose. Zena as well as Stephanie will certainly remain to aid their crewmates in front of launch, and also they exemplify what it indicates to become a professional astronaut.".The organization will certainly share reassignment particulars for Cardman as well as Wilson when readily available." I am heavily proud of our whole entire crew," stated Cardman, "and I am actually confident Chip and Alex will certainly step into their duties with superiority. All 4 people continue to be devoted to the effectiveness of the purpose, as well as Stephanie and also I expect flighting when the time is right.".Wilson included, "I recognize Chip and also Alex will certainly perform a great work along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as part of Trip 72.".Along with 203 times visited space, this will certainly be Hague's 3rd launch and also second objective to the orbiting research laboratory. During the course of his initial launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as safe landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months later, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also served as a tour developer aboard the spaceport station in the course of Expeditions 59 as well as 60. Hague performed 3 spacewalks to improve space station power systems and install a docking adapter for office space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Pressure, Hague completed a developing turning at the Self defense Division, as well as served as the Area Force's supervisor of test as well as assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed roles at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Course till this air travel task. Follow @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's initial travel to room and also the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he examined engineering along with qualifications in space capsule and also top phases coming from the Moscow Flying Institute. Gorbunov earned a degree from the armed forces division along with a specialized in operating and also fixing plane, choppers, and also airplane motors. Before his choice as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as a designer for Spacecraft Area Corp. Energia and also sustained freight space probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov are going to become members of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the terminal. They are going to sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner performing medical research as well as routine maintenance tasks right into the station's 24th year of constant individual existence.Discover more concerning International Space Station research and 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.