.Editor's note: This release was actually updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to improve Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as a goal professional. It was improved once again to remedy a launch time.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, previously revealed as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a future purpose..Hague and also Gorbunov will take flight to the spaceport station as leader as well as objective expert, respectively, as aspect of a two-crew tour aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded crew supplement follows NASA's decision to come back the firm's Boeing Crew Flight Exam uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with 2 unoccupied seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who released aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will flight home along with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to pilot Hague was created through NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba had to stabilize flying a NASA workers participant along with previous spaceflight expertise to influence the trip, while ensuring NASA maintains an incorporated workers with a Roscosmos astronaut that can operate their important bodies for carried on, safe terminal functions." While our experts've modified staff before for a selection of factors, scaling down workers for this air travel was actually an additional tough choice to get used to considered that the staff has educated as a staff of four," said Acaba. "I possess the utmost peace of mind with all our workers, that have been superb throughout instruction for the mission. Zena and also Stephanie are going to remain to support their crewmates in front of launch, and they show what it implies to be an expert rocketeer.".The agency is going to share reassignment information for Cardman and Wilson when on call." I am deeply pleased with our entire crew," stated Cardman, "and I am self-assured Nick as well as Alex will certainly step into their duties along with distinction. All four of us remain dedicated to the excellence of the purpose, as well as Stephanie and also I await taking flight when the moment corrects.".Wilson included, "I know Nick as well as Alex are going to do a great work along with their work aboard the International Space Station as portion of Expedition 72.".With 203 times visited room, this will certainly be actually Hague's 3rd launch and second purpose to the orbiting laboratory. In the course of his first launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer failure, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also functioned as a flight developer aboard the space station in the course of Trips 59 and 60. Hague performed three spacewalks to update spaceport station power bodies and set up a docking adapter for office spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the USA Area Pressure, Hague accomplished a developing rotation at the Self defense Department, as well as served as the Space Power's supervisor of examination and also analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed obligations at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Program until this air travel job. Comply With @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will certainly be actually Gorbunov's initial vacation to space and the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he studied design along with qualifications in space capsule and also upper phases from the Moscow Aeronautics Institute. Gorbunov finished coming from the army department with a specialized in operating and fixing airplane, helicopters, as well as airplane engines. Before his collection as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as a designer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia as well as assisted packages space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov are going to enter of the Trip 72 workers aboard the station. They are going to participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner conducting scientific research study as well as upkeep tasks in to the station's 24th year of ongoing human visibility.Find out more concerning International Spaceport station research as well as 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.