.Editor's keep in mind: This release was actually updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to repair Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a goal specialist. It was updated once more to repair a launch date.NASA rocketeer Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut 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 Stephanie Wilson, previously introduced as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a future mission..Hague and Gorbunov will take flight to the space station as commander as well as mission professional, respectively, as portion of a two-crew element tour aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated team complement complies with NASA's choice to come back the company's Boeing Staff Tour Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with pair of unoccupied seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will pilot home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to fly Hague was actually created by NASA principal astronaut Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba had to stabilize piloting a NASA workers member with previous spaceflight knowledge to regulate the flight, while making certain NASA maintains an integrated crew with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who may operate their vital systems for carried on, safe terminal functions." While our team've changed team before for a variety of explanations, downsizing team for this trip was actually an additional difficult decision to adjust to considered that the staff has actually educated as a crew of 4," pointed out Acaba. "I possess the utmost assurance with all our team, that have been excellent throughout instruction for the objective. Zena and also Stephanie will certainly remain to support their crewmates in advance of launch, and also they display what it means to become a qualified rocketeer.".The organization will certainly discuss reassignment information for Cardman and also Wilson when accessible." I am deeply happy with our whole workers," stated Cardman, "and I am actually confident Scar and Alex will certainly step into their jobs along with distinction. All four of us stay devoted to the effectiveness of this particular objective, and Stephanie and also I eagerly anticipate flighting when the amount of time is right.".Wilson added, "I recognize Scar and also Alex will definitely carry out an excellent project along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as part of Trip 72.".With 203 days logged in area, this will be actually Hague's third launch as well as second purpose to the orbiting research laboratory. During his 1st launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster breakdown, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months eventually, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also acted as a tour engineer aboard the spaceport station throughout Trips 59 as well as 60. Hague performed three spacewalks to improve space station power devices and install a docking adapter for commercial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Pressure, Hague completed a developing turning at the Defense Division, and acted as the Space Pressure's director of examination and evaluation coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed tasks at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner Program until this tour assignment. Adhere To @astrohague on X and Instagram.This are going to be actually Gorbunov's very first vacation to area and also the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he studied design with credentials in space probe as well as top phases coming from the Moscow Flying Principle. Gorbunov finished from the armed forces team along with a specialized in operating as well as mending aircraft, helicopters, as well as aircraft engines. Prior to his collection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as an engineer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia and also sustained payload space probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will become members of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner carrying out medical research and maintenance activities right into the station's 24th year of continual individual visibility.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station analysis and 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.