.Editor's note: This release was updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to correct Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a goal professional. It was actually upgraded again to fix a launch time.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, earlier introduced as crewmates, are actually entitled for reassignment on a future goal..Hague and also Gorbunov will pilot to the space station as commander and mission specialist, respectively, as part of a two-crew tour aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded workers complement follows NASA's selection to come back the agency's Boeing Staff Flight Test uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 with two unoccupied seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, are going to pilot home along with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to flight Hague was actually made by NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba needed to harmonize taking flight a NASA crew participant along with previous spaceflight adventure to influence the trip, while making sure NASA sustains an integrated workers along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can easily operate their important units for carried on, secure terminal procedures." While our team have actually changed workers before for a selection of main reasons, scaling down staff for this tour was one more difficult decision to adapt to considered that the workers has actually qualified as a workers of four," pointed out Acaba. "I possess the utmost peace of mind in every our staff, that have actually been actually excellent throughout instruction for the goal. Zena as well as Stephanie will certainly continue to help their crewmates in advance of launch, and they show what it indicates to be a specialist rocketeer.".The company will definitely share reassignment particulars for Cardman as well as Wilson when available." I am actually heavily happy with our whole crew," said Cardman, "as well as I am self-assured Chip as well as Alex will certainly enter their jobs with quality. All 4 people stay dedicated to the effectiveness of this particular goal, and Stephanie and I await flighting when the moment corrects.".Wilson included, "I know Scar and Alex will certainly carry out a fantastic project along with their work aboard the International Space Station as component of Trip 72.".Along with 203 days visited room, this will be actually Hague's third launch and also 2nd goal to the orbiting laboratory. During his first launch in Oct 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster breakdown, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as risk-free touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as acted as a flight designer aboard the space station during Explorations 59 as well as 60. Hague performed three spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station energy devices and mount a docking adapter for business space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Room Power, Hague accomplished a developmental turning at the Defense Team, and also functioned as the Space Pressure's director of examination and also analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed tasks at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Plan up until this trip project. Observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's first excursion to space as well as the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he analyzed design along with certifications in spacecraft and upper stages coming from the Moscow Aviation Principle. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the army division along with a specialized in operating and also fixing aircraft, helicopters, and aircraft engines. Prior to his assortment as an astronaut in 2018, he functioned as a developer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia and sustained payload space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the station. They will participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner carrying out clinical research as well as routine maintenance activities in to the station's 24th year of constant individual visibility.Learn more about International Space Station investigation and also procedures 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.