.Publisher's details: This release was improved two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to fix Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as a mission expert. It was actually improved again to correct a launch day.NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, previously announced as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a future goal..Hague as well as Gorbunov will fly to the spaceport station as commander as well as purpose specialist, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded workers supplement complies with NASA's choice to come back the organization's Boeing Crew Flight Exam uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 along with two uninhabited chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that released aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, are going to flight home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to pilot Hague was created through NASA chief rocketeer Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba must harmonize flying a NASA team participant with previous spaceflight experience to regulate the flight, while guaranteeing NASA preserves an incorporated workers with a Roscosmos astronaut who may function their vital bodies for continued, safe station functions." While our company have actually modified workers just before for an assortment of reasons, downsizing workers for this flight was actually an additional difficult decision to adapt to given that the staff has taught as a workers of four," said Acaba. "I have miraculous assurance in each our crew, who have actually been superb throughout training for the objective. Zena and also Stephanie will certainly remain to assist their crewmates in advance of launch, and they exemplify what it suggests to become a qualified astronaut.".The agency is going to discuss reassignment information for Cardman and Wilson when available." I am heavily proud of our entire team," claimed Cardman, "and also I am certain Nick and Alex will certainly step into their parts with quality. All 4 of us stay devoted to the results of this particular goal, and Stephanie as well as I look forward to flighting when the amount of time is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I understand Scar and also Alex will definitely perform a wonderful work with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as component of Trip 72.".With 203 times visited space, this will certainly be actually Hague's third launch as well as 2nd mission to the orbiting research laboratory. Throughout his first launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also risk-free touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months later, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also served as an air travel designer aboard the spaceport station in the course of Trips 59 and also 60. Hague conducted 3 spacewalks to update spaceport station energy devices as well as mount a docking adapter for office space probe. An active-duty colonel in the united state Space Force, Hague finished a developing turning at the Protection Department, and served as the Room Force's supervisor of exam and also examination coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to obligations at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner Course till this trip job. Follow @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will be Gorbunov's first trip to space and also the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he analyzed design with credentials in space probe and also upper stages from the Moscow Aeronautics Principle. Gorbunov got a degree from the military division along with a specialized in operating as well as repairing airplane, helicopters, as well as aircraft engines. Before his selection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as a designer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia as well as sustained packages space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Exploration 72 workers aboard the station. They will join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner carrying out scientific study and maintenance tasks in to the station's 24th year of constant individual existence.Find out more about International Space Station study and 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.