.Publisher's note: This launch was updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to fix Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as an objective specialist. It was upgraded again to correct a launch day.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, formerly introduced as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a future objective..Hague as well as Gorbunov will flight to the space station as leader as well as goal specialist, specifically, as component of a two-crew air travel aboard a SpaceX Monster.The updated team supplement follows NASA's choice to return the organization's Boeing Crew Air travel Exam uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with pair of abandoned seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that released aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to pilot home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to take flight Hague was made through NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba must balance flying a NASA team participant along with previous spaceflight expertise to command the air travel, while ensuring NASA sustains an incorporated workers along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who may run their crucial devices for carried on, risk-free terminal functions." While our company have actually transformed crew before for a selection of explanations, downsizing crew for this trip was an additional difficult selection to get used to dued to the fact that the workers has taught as a workers of 4," pointed out Acaba. "I have the utmost assurance in each our team, that have actually been actually excellent throughout training for the mission. Zena and Stephanie will continue to assist their crewmates ahead of launch, as well as they embody what it implies to be an expert astronaut.".The agency will certainly share reassignment particulars for Cardman as well as Wilson when offered." I am actually deeply happy with our whole staff," mentioned Cardman, "and I am actually self-assured Scar and also Alex will definitely step into their duties along with distinction. All four of us stay committed to the excellence of this particular objective, as well as Stephanie and I anticipate flying when the amount of time corrects.".Wilson added, "I recognize Nick and also Alex will certainly perform an excellent work with their work aboard the International Space Station as portion of Trip 72.".Along with 203 times visited area, this are going to be actually Hague's third launch and also 2nd purpose to the orbiting lab. During his initial launch in October 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failure, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months later on, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also acted as a tour developer aboard the spaceport station during the course of Trips 59 and 60. Hague carried out three spacewalks to update space station power systems as well as put in a docking adapter for office space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Pressure, Hague completed a developing turning at the Defense Team, as well as worked as the Room Power's director of test and also analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to obligations at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Plan until this flight project. Comply With @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will definitely be Gorbunov's initial vacation to area and also the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he analyzed design with certifications in space probe as well as top stages coming from the Moscow Flying Institute. Gorbunov got a degree from the armed forces team with a specialty in operating and also restoring airplane, helicopters, and also plane engines. Just before his collection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as an engineer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia and supported payload space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will enter of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the terminal. They are going to join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner performing scientific investigation and also upkeep activities in to the terminal's 24th year of ongoing individual existence.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station analysis as well as functions 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.