.Editor's keep in mind: This release was upgraded two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to repair Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's part as an objective expert. It was upgraded once more to correct a launch day.NASA astronaut Chip Hague as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, formerly introduced as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a potential goal..Hague as well as Gorbunov are going to take flight to the space station as leader as well as goal expert, specifically, as component of a two-crew element air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved workers complement observes NASA's selection to come back the agency's Boeing Team Trip Exam uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 with two unoccupied chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, who introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will flight home along with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to fly Hague was created by NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Acaba had to harmonize flying a NASA staff participant along with previous spaceflight expertise to control the tour, while making sure NASA preserves an incorporated team along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can work their critical units for carried on, secure terminal operations." While our experts've changed crew just before for a range of factors, downsizing crew for this air travel was actually yet another challenging choice to adjust to considered that the workers has qualified as a workers of 4," said Acaba. "I possess miraculous confidence in every our crew, who have actually been outstanding throughout training for the purpose. Zena as well as Stephanie are going to continue to help their crewmates ahead of launch, and also they exhibit what it means to be an expert astronaut.".The organization will discuss reassignment information for Cardman and Wilson when offered." I am deeply happy with our whole crew," said Cardman, "as well as I am actually certain Chip and also Alex are going to enter their jobs with quality. All 4 of us stay committed to the results of this particular mission, and Stephanie as well as I eagerly anticipate piloting when the time corrects.".Wilson included, "I understand Scar and also Alex will certainly do a wonderful task along with their job aboard the International Space Station as component of Expedition 72.".With 203 times logged in room, this are going to be Hague's 3rd launch and second goal to the orbiting research laboratory. During the course of his first launch in Oct 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer failing, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and acted as a tour designer aboard the spaceport station during the course of Explorations 59 as well as 60. Hague administered three spacewalks to improve space station energy devices and also install a docking adapter for commercial space probe. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Force, Hague completed a developing turning at the Self defense Department, and also acted as the Space Force's supervisor of exam and also examination from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to duties at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner Program till this trip project. Comply With @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This are going to be Gorbunov's initial journey to space as well as the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he analyzed design along with credentials in space capsule as well as higher phases from the Moscow Flying Institute. Gorbunov graduated coming from the military division along with a specialized in operating and also fixing aircraft, choppers, and airplane motors. Just before his collection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he worked as an engineer for Spacecraft Area Corp. Energia and also sustained freight space probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Trip 72 staff aboard the terminal. They are going to join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner administering clinical research as well as routine maintenance activities right into the station's 24th year of continuous individual visibility.Find out more concerning International Spaceport station research 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.