.Editor's details: This launch was improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to deal with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's part as an objective specialist. It was actually upgraded again to correct a launch day.NASA rocketeer Chip Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, recently announced as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a future purpose..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to take flight to the space station as commander as well as mission professional, specifically, as part of a two-crew element flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded team supplement complies with NASA's decision to come back the firm's Boeing Workers Trip Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with two unoccupied chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who released aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to pilot home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to take flight Hague was made by NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba had to balance piloting a NASA staff member with previous spaceflight expertise to influence the flight, while guaranteeing NASA maintains an incorporated staff with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can easily run their important systems for carried on, secure station functions." While our experts have actually transformed crew before for a selection of causes, downsizing staff for this tour was actually one more challenging decision to get used to dued to the fact that the crew has actually trained as a team of 4," said Acaba. "I have miraculous peace of mind in all our workers, who have actually been actually great throughout training for the goal. Zena and Stephanie will definitely continue to assist their crewmates in advance of launch, and they exhibit what it implies to become a professional rocketeer.".The company will certainly discuss reassignment details for Cardman and Wilson when accessible." I am actually profoundly proud of our whole staff," stated Cardman, "and also I am actually confident Chip as well as Alex will definitely step into their jobs along with excellence. All four of us remain dedicated to the excellence of the objective, as well as Stephanie and also I expect piloting when the moment corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I recognize Scar as well as Alex will definitely perform a wonderful work along with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as component of Expedition 72.".With 203 days visited area, this will certainly be Hague's 3rd launch and also 2nd objective to the orbiting research laboratory. During the course of his first launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster breakdown, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and risk-free touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also functioned as a trip engineer aboard the spaceport station during the course of Explorations 59 and also 60. Hague carried out three spacewalks to update space station power bodies as well as put up a docking adapter for office space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Force, Hague accomplished a developmental turning at the Defense Division, and acted as the Space Force's director of exam as well as analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed responsibilities at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Course up until this tour job. Observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will definitely be Gorbunov's very first vacation to space as well as the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he analyzed design along with credentials in spacecraft and also upper stages from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the military team with a specialty in operating as well as fixing plane, choppers, and aircraft motors. Before his selection as an astronaut in 2018, he operated as a developer for Rocket Room Corp. Energia and assisted payload spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to enter of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will certainly sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner conducting clinical investigation and also maintenance tasks in to the terminal's 24th year of constant individual existence.Discover more concerning International Space Station research and also 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.