.Editor's note: This release was actually improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to repair Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as a goal professional. It was improved once again to correct a launch time.NASA astronaut Chip Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, formerly announced as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a future mission..Hague as well as Gorbunov will take flight to the space station as commander and also mission specialist, respectively, as portion of a two-crew flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded crew supplement follows NASA's decision to come back the agency's Boeing Team Tour Exam uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with pair of uninhabited chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who introduced aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, are going to fly home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to flight Hague was actually made by NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba had to stabilize taking flight a NASA staff member along with previous spaceflight adventure to regulate the flight, while making certain NASA sustains an incorporated team along with a Roscosmos astronaut that can easily run their essential units for continued, safe terminal functions." While our experts have actually transformed team just before for a variety of reasons, scaling down staff for this trip was actually another difficult decision to get used to considered that the crew has taught as a workers of four," stated Acaba. "I have miraculous confidence in every our staff, that have actually been actually great throughout instruction for the objective. Zena and Stephanie are going to remain to support their crewmates ahead of launch, and they embody what it indicates to become a qualified rocketeer.".The organization will definitely share reassignment details for Cardman and Wilson when available." I am heavily proud of our whole team," pointed out Cardman, "as well as I am confident Chip and Alex are going to enter their parts with quality. All 4 people remain specialized to the excellence of the goal, as well as Stephanie and I await taking flight when the time corrects.".Wilson added, "I understand Scar as well as Alex will definitely do a wonderful task along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as part of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 days visited area, this will be actually Hague's third launch and 2nd mission to the orbiting lab. During his very first launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failure, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. Five months later, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and served as an air travel developer aboard the space station throughout Expeditions 59 and also 60. Hague performed three spacewalks to update space station energy systems and also mount a docking adapter for industrial space probe. An active-duty colonel in the united state Space Power, Hague accomplished a developing turning at the Defense Department, and also acted as the Room Power's supervisor of exam and also assessment coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to duties at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner System till this air travel project. Follow @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will definitely be Gorbunov's very first trip to space as well as the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he researched engineering along with credentials in space probe as well as top stages from the Moscow Aeronautics Institute. Gorbunov finished coming from the military team with a specialty in operating and fixing aircraft, choppers, and aircraft engines. Prior to his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as a developer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia and also sustained cargo spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov are going to become members of the Expedition 72 staff aboard the station. They will sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner conducting clinical research study and also upkeep tasks in to the station's 24th year of ongoing human presence.Find out 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.