.Editor's details: This launch was updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to remedy Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as a goal specialist. It was actually upgraded again to improve a launch time.NASA astronaut Chip Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, recently revealed as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a potential objective..Hague as well as Gorbunov are going to take flight to the space station as leader and purpose expert, respectively, as aspect of a two-crew element tour aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved workers supplement complies with NASA's selection to return the organization's Boeing Staff Flight Test uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 with 2 unoccupied seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will take flight home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to take flight Hague was made by NASA principal astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba must balance piloting a NASA staff member with previous spaceflight adventure to regulate the flight, while guaranteeing NASA preserves an incorporated workers along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can easily function their crucial units for proceeded, secure station operations." While our company have actually transformed team just before for a range of explanations, downsizing team for this trip was yet another hard choice to get used to dued to the fact that the workers has actually qualified as a staff of 4," stated Acaba. "I have miraculous peace of mind in each our staff, who have actually been actually great throughout instruction for the objective. Zena and Stephanie will definitely continue to help their crewmates in front of launch, and they show what it indicates to become a professional astronaut.".The company will discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when available." I am actually heavily pleased with our whole team," stated Cardman, "as well as I am actually positive Scar as well as Alex will step into their functions with excellence. All four of us stay devoted to the success of this mission, and Stephanie and also I eagerly anticipate flighting when the amount of time corrects.".Wilson added, "I recognize Scar and also Alex will carry out a wonderful work along with their work aboard the International Space Station as component of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 times visited space, this will be actually Hague's 3rd launch and also 2nd goal to the orbiting laboratory. Throughout his initial launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer breakdown, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and served as a flight engineer aboard the space station during Trips 59 and also 60. Hague carried out three spacewalks to upgrade space station electrical power systems and also put in a docking adapter for commercial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the USA Space Force, Hague finished a developmental rotation at the Self defense Division, and also worked as the Space Force's director of exam as well as analysis from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed tasks at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Plan till this trip task. Comply With @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This are going to be actually Gorbunov's very first excursion to area and also the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he analyzed design with credentials in space probe and higher stages coming from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov earned a degree from the armed forces team along with a specialized in operating and also restoring plane, choppers, as well as aircraft motors. Before his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as a developer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia as well as supported packages space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will enter of the Trip 72 crew aboard the station. They will certainly participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner carrying out medical study as well as servicing tasks right into the station's 24th year of continuous human presence.Find out more regarding International Spaceport station investigation 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.