.Editor's note: This launch was updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to improve Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a purpose specialist. It was actually improved once again to deal with a launch day.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, formerly announced as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a potential goal..Hague and Gorbunov will flight to the space station as commander and objective specialist, respectively, as aspect of a two-crew air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved team complement follows NASA's choice to return the firm's Boeing Team Air travel Exam uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 with 2 vacant seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, are going to pilot home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to fly Hague was actually created by NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba must stabilize flighting a NASA staff member along with previous spaceflight adventure to control the flight, while ensuring NASA maintains an incorporated team along with a Roscosmos astronaut who can function their essential devices for continued, safe terminal procedures." While our experts've altered staff before for a range of factors, scaling down staff for this trip was actually an additional tough decision to get used to considered that the crew has actually trained as a staff of 4," said Acaba. "I possess miraculous peace of mind in each our staff, that have been exceptional throughout instruction for the mission. Zena and Stephanie will definitely remain to assist their crewmates in advance of launch, as well as they show what it indicates to be a professional rocketeer.".The company is going to discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when available." I am deeply happy with our entire crew," stated Cardman, "and I am self-assured Scar as well as Alex will step into their roles along with excellence. All four people remain committed to the success of this purpose, and Stephanie as well as I eagerly anticipate flighting when the moment is right.".Wilson included, "I know Scar and Alex are going to perform a wonderful work along with their job aboard the International Space Station as component of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 times visited area, this are going to be actually Hague's 3rd launch and also second purpose to the orbiting lab. In the course of his 1st launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months eventually, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as functioned as a flight engineer aboard the spaceport station during the course of Expeditions 59 and 60. Hague conducted 3 spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station energy devices and install a docking adapter for office spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the USA Space Power, Hague completed a developing rotation at the Defense Department, as well as worked as the Room Force's supervisor of exam and examination coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed tasks at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Program up until this trip project. Adhere To @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will definitely be Gorbunov's very first vacation to space and the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he examined design with certifications in space capsule and also upper stages from the Moscow Aviation Principle. Gorbunov earned a degree from the armed forces team along with a specialized in operating as well as restoring plane, helicopters, as well as aircraft engines. Before his variety as an astronaut in 2018, he functioned as an engineer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia and also sustained payload space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Trip 72 staff aboard the station. They will definitely join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner performing medical research as well as maintenance tasks right into the terminal's 24th year of continual individual presence.Discover more concerning International Space Station study and also 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.