.Publisher's note: This launch was actually upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to improve Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's function as an objective professional. It was actually updated once more to repair a launch time.NASA rocketeer Chip Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, recently declared as crewmates, are actually entitled for reassignment on a potential goal..Hague and Gorbunov will pilot to the space station as commander and also purpose specialist, respectively, as part of a two-crew element air travel aboard a SpaceX Monster.The improved team complement follows NASA's selection to come back the company's Boeing Team Tour Examination uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with two deserted chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to flight home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to fly Hague was actually created by NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba had to stabilize taking flight a NASA staff member along with previous spaceflight experience to command the tour, while making sure NASA maintains an incorporated staff along with a Roscosmos astronaut that can function their crucial units for proceeded, risk-free terminal functions." While our team've transformed staff just before for a selection of reasons, scaling down crew for this trip was another hard decision to get used to given that the crew has taught as a team of 4," said Acaba. "I have the utmost self-confidence in every our workers, that have actually been actually great throughout training for the objective. Zena and Stephanie are going to continue to support their crewmates in front of launch, and also they exemplify what it implies to become a specialist astronaut.".The company will certainly discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when on call." I am profoundly happy with our entire workers," said Cardman, "and also I am self-assured Chip and Alex are going to enter their roles with distinction. All four of us continue to be dedicated to the results of this particular objective, and Stephanie and also I anticipate flying when the amount of time corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I recognize Chip and also Alex will certainly do an excellent task with their job aboard the International Space Station as component of Exploration 72.".With 203 times visited space, this are going to be Hague's 3rd launch and 2nd goal to the orbiting lab. In the course of his 1st launch in Oct 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer failure, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also served as a flight engineer aboard the spaceport station throughout Explorations 59 and also 60. Hague administered three spacewalks to update spaceport station power units as well as install a docking adapter for office space probe. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Room Pressure, Hague completed a developmental rotation at the Self defense Division, as well as served as the Space Force's supervisor of examination and also assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed roles at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Course till this tour task. Adhere To @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's 1st vacation to space as well as the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he analyzed engineering with credentials in space probe and also upper phases from the Moscow Air Travel Institute. Gorbunov earned a degree coming from the military division with a specialty in operating and fixing aircraft, helicopters, and also airplane engines. Just before his option as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as an engineer for Spacecraft Area Corp. Energia as well as supported payload space probe launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will enter of the Trip 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will certainly participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner administering clinical analysis and servicing activities in to the terminal's 24th year of continual individual existence.Learn more about International Spaceport station research and 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.