.Publisher's note: This launch was actually improved two times on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to repair Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as a purpose expert. It was actually upgraded once more to repair a launch day.NASA rocketeer Chip Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, earlier introduced as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a future objective..Hague as well as Gorbunov are going to pilot to the spaceport station as leader and also goal professional, specifically, as portion of a two-crew flight aboard a SpaceX Monster.The improved staff enhance complies with NASA's decision to return the organization's Boeing Workers Flight Exam uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with pair of abandoned chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, will flight home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to fly Hague was actually made through NASA chief rocketeer Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to harmonize flighting a NASA crew member along with previous spaceflight expertise to command the tour, while guaranteeing NASA keeps an integrated team along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can easily operate their essential systems for carried on, secure station procedures." While our team have actually altered team just before for an assortment of explanations, scaling down team for this flight was actually yet another difficult selection to adjust to given that the crew has actually taught as a team of 4," said Acaba. "I have miraculous self-confidence with all our crew, that have actually been exceptional throughout instruction for the objective. Zena and also Stephanie will certainly continue to support their crewmates before launch, and they embody what it indicates to be a specialist rocketeer.".The organization will certainly share reassignment information for Cardman and also Wilson when offered." I am actually heavily pleased with our whole staff," said Cardman, "and I am actually self-assured Chip and Alex will definitely enter their parts with distinction. All four of us remain specialized to the success of this particular goal, as well as Stephanie as well as I look forward to taking flight when the time is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I know Scar and also Alex will perform a terrific task along with their work aboard the International Space Station as aspect of Expedition 72.".With 203 days logged in room, this will certainly be actually Hague's third launch and also second goal to the orbiting laboratory. In the course of his 1st launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer failure, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months later on, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and worked as a flight engineer aboard the spaceport station during the course of Trips 59 as well as 60. Hague performed three spacewalks to improve space station energy bodies and also set up a docking adapter for industrial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the USA Room Power, Hague completed a developmental rotation at the Protection Team, and acted as the Room Pressure's director of examination and also examination from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed tasks at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner System until this tour assignment. Follow @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will be Gorbunov's very first vacation to area as well as the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he researched engineering along with qualifications in space probe and top stages coming from the Moscow Aeronautics Principle. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the military division along with a specialty in operating as well as restoring aircraft, helicopters, as well as airplane motors. Prior to his variety as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as an engineer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia and assisted payload spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov are going to become members of the Expedition 72 team aboard the terminal. They are going to join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner performing medical research study as well as upkeep tasks in to the terminal's 24th year of constant individual presence.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station analysis and 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.