.Editor's keep in mind: This release was updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to correct Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as a goal specialist. It was updated again to correct a launch time.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, earlier introduced as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague as well as Gorbunov will flight to the space station as commander and also goal expert, respectively, as portion of a two-crew element tour aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded team enhance follows NASA's selection to return the company's Boeing Staff Flight Exam uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with pair of unoccupied seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will pilot home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to take flight Hague was made by NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to stabilize flying a NASA crew participant along with previous spaceflight experience to control the flight, while guaranteeing NASA keeps an integrated crew along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who may work their crucial bodies for proceeded, risk-free terminal procedures." While our experts've modified workers before for a selection of factors, scaling down crew for this air travel was an additional difficult selection to adjust to considered that the workers has actually trained as a workers of 4," mentioned Acaba. "I have the utmost assurance with all our team, who have been actually excellent throughout instruction for the objective. Zena and Stephanie will continue to help their crewmates in advance of launch, as well as they exhibit what it indicates to become a specialist astronaut.".The organization will discuss reassignment information for Cardman as well as Wilson when accessible." I am greatly proud of our whole team," mentioned Cardman, "and also I am actually certain Nick and also Alex will definitely enter their roles with excellence. All 4 people stay devoted to the results of the mission, as well as Stephanie and also I await flighting when the moment corrects.".Wilson included, "I recognize Scar as well as Alex will definitely do a terrific task along with their job aboard the International Space Station as component of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 days logged in room, this will definitely be Hague's 3rd launch as well as 2nd objective to the orbiting research laboratory. In the course of his initial 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 safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. Five months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as functioned as a trip engineer aboard the space station during the course of Trips 59 and 60. Hague administered three spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station power systems as well as install a docking adapter for industrial space probe. An active-duty colonel in the united state Room Power, Hague accomplished a developmental rotation at the Self defense Department, as well as acted as the Space Pressure's supervisor of exam and also evaluation coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to roles at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner Program up until this trip assignment. Observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.This are going to be Gorbunov's 1st trip to space and also the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he analyzed engineering with credentials in spacecraft and also higher stages coming from the Moscow Aeronautics Institute. Gorbunov finished coming from the army team with a specialty in operating and fixing airplane, choppers, and also aircraft motors. Just before his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as a developer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia and also sustained freight space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov are going to become members of the Exploration 72 team aboard the terminal. They will definitely join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner administering clinical study as well as routine maintenance activities into the terminal's 24th year of continual human visibility.Discover more about International Space Station research 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.