.Editor's keep in mind: This launch was updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to improve Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as an objective expert. It was actually upgraded again to repair a launch day.NASA astronaut Chip Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, formerly declared as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a future goal..Hague as well as Gorbunov will take flight to the spaceport station as leader as well as purpose specialist, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated crew complement observes NASA's selection to come back the company's Boeing Workers Tour Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with 2 vacant seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to flight home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to take flight Hague was made through NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba must harmonize flighting a NASA staff member with previous spaceflight knowledge to influence the trip, while making sure NASA maintains an incorporated workers with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can run their critical systems for proceeded, secure station functions." While our team've changed crew just before for a range of explanations, scaling down workers for this trip was another tough choice to adjust to considered that the crew has actually trained as a team of 4," said Acaba. "I have miraculous self-confidence in every our workers, that have been excellent throughout training for the purpose. Zena and also Stephanie will continue to aid their crewmates ahead of launch, as well as they embody what it suggests to be a specialist astronaut.".The firm is going to share reassignment information for Cardman and Wilson when offered." I am actually deeply happy with our whole entire workers," pointed out Cardman, "as well as I am positive Scar and Alex will definitely step into their roles with superiority. All 4 of us remain specialized to the effectiveness of this particular mission, and also Stephanie and I eagerly anticipate flying when the moment corrects.".Wilson added, "I understand Nick and Alex are going to perform an excellent work along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as part of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 times logged in space, this will definitely be Hague's 3rd launch and also 2nd purpose to the orbiting laboratory. During his very first launch in Oct 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 secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months later, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as served as a tour developer aboard the space station during Explorations 59 and also 60. Hague performed three spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station energy units as well as put up a docking adapter for commercial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the united state Room Force, Hague completed a developing turning at the Protection Department, and also served as the Space Pressure's supervisor of examination and also assessment coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to obligations at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner Program till this trip assignment. Follow @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will be actually Gorbunov's very first excursion to space and also the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he analyzed design along with qualifications in space probe and upper phases coming from the Moscow Aeronautics Principle. Gorbunov finished from the military team along with a specialized in operating and also fixing plane, helicopters, and plane motors. Just before his choice as a cosmonaut in 2018, he worked as an engineer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia and also supported cargo space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov are going to enter of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner carrying out clinical research as well as servicing activities into the station's 24th year of continual individual presence.Learn more concerning International Space Station study and also operations 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.