.Editor's note: This launch was actually upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to fix Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as a mission specialist. It was updated once again to repair a launch time.NASA astronaut Chip Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, earlier introduced as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a potential goal..Hague and Gorbunov will take flight to the spaceport station as leader and also purpose expert, specifically, as portion of a two-crew member air travel aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded workers complement complies with NASA's selection to come back the agency's Boeing Staff Air travel Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with pair of empty chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who released aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will pilot home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to take flight Hague was actually made by NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba must balance piloting a NASA workers participant with previous spaceflight expertise to control the trip, while ensuring NASA sustains an integrated staff with a Roscosmos astronaut who can easily run their critical systems for proceeded, risk-free terminal functions." While we've transformed staff before for a wide array of reasons, downsizing workers for this flight was another tough decision to adapt to considered that the team has qualified as a crew of 4," mentioned Acaba. "I have the utmost confidence in every our staff, who have been superb throughout training for the purpose. Zena as well as Stephanie will certainly continue to assist their crewmates before launch, as well as they exhibit what it suggests to be a qualified astronaut.".The firm will certainly discuss reassignment details for Cardman as well as Wilson when readily available." I am profoundly happy with our whole staff," stated Cardman, "as well as I am confident Chip and also Alex are going to enter their duties with superiority. All 4 of us remain devoted to the success of this particular goal, as well as Stephanie and I anticipate taking flight when the time is right.".Wilson included, "I know Nick as well as Alex will certainly perform a terrific task with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as component of Trip 72.".With 203 days logged in room, this will be Hague's 3rd launch and also second purpose to the orbiting lab. During the course of his first launch in Oct 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster breakdown, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months later, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as functioned as a tour designer aboard the space station during Trips 59 and 60. Hague administered 3 spacewalks to improve space station electrical power devices and set up a docking adapter for office space probe. An active-duty colonel in the united state Space Force, Hague finished a developmental turning at the Self defense Division, and acted as the Room Pressure's director of exam and analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to tasks at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner Course until this tour job. Comply With @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will definitely be actually Gorbunov's 1st journey to room and the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he researched design with credentials in spacecraft as well as higher phases coming from the Moscow Flying Institute. Gorbunov finished coming from the armed forces division with a specialized in operating as well as repairing aircraft, choppers, and plane motors. Before his collection as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as a designer for Spacecraft Area Corp. Energia and also sustained packages space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to enter of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the station. They are going to sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner conducting medical analysis and servicing activities into the station's 24th year of continual human existence.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station analysis and also operations 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.