.Publisher's details: This release was actually updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to remedy Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as a goal expert. It was actually upgraded once more to repair a launch time.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, recently introduced as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague and Gorbunov will pilot to the space station as leader and objective expert, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew element trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved team enhance complies with NASA's decision to return the company's Boeing Workers Flight Examination uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 along with pair of abandoned seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, who released aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to fly home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to take flight Hague was actually created by NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Acaba had to balance flying a NASA workers member along with previous spaceflight experience to influence the air travel, while guaranteeing NASA keeps an integrated staff with a Roscosmos astronaut that may function their vital units for continued, risk-free terminal operations." While our company've changed crew prior to for a range of explanations, scaling down crew for this flight was yet another difficult decision to adjust to considered that the workers has actually trained as a workers of 4," claimed Acaba. "I have the utmost confidence in each our staff, that have actually been great throughout training for the objective. Zena as well as Stephanie are going to continue to aid their crewmates in advance of launch, and also they exemplify what it indicates to become a qualified astronaut.".The firm will definitely share reassignment information for Cardman as well as Wilson when accessible." I am deeply proud of our whole crew," said Cardman, "and also I am certain Chip as well as Alex will definitely step into their parts with quality. All four people remain devoted to the results of the goal, and also Stephanie and also I look forward to flying when the amount of time corrects.".Wilson added, "I know Chip and also Alex will definitely perform a fantastic job with their work aboard the International Space Station as component of Trip 72.".Along with 203 times logged in room, this will be Hague's 3rd launch and second objective to the orbiting laboratory. During his initial launch in October 2018, Hague and 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 landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months later on, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as functioned as a tour designer aboard the space station throughout Explorations 59 as well as 60. Hague performed 3 spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station energy devices and also set up a docking adapter for office space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Power, Hague accomplished a developing turning at the Self defense Team, as well as worked as the Room Pressure's supervisor of exam and also analysis from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed obligations at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Plan up until this flight task. Adhere To @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will definitely be Gorbunov's 1st excursion to area and the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he analyzed design with certifications in space probe as well as top phases coming from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov finished coming from the armed forces division with a specialty in operating and fixing airplane, choppers, and also plane motors. Before his selection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as a designer for Spacecraft Area Corp. Energia and also assisted freight space probe launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner conducting scientific investigation as well as upkeep activities into the terminal's 24th year of continual human visibility.Learn more about International Spaceport station analysis as well as 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.