.Editor's details: This release was upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to correct Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's function as an objective specialist. It was upgraded once again to correct a launch time.NASA rocketeer Chip Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, previously declared as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a potential mission..Hague as well as Gorbunov are going to fly to the spaceport station as leader and also objective professional, respectively, as aspect of a two-crew member trip aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded workers enhance adheres to NASA's choice to return the agency's Boeing Workers Tour Exam uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with two empty seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to take flight home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to take flight Hague was actually created by NASA principal astronaut Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Acaba must stabilize flying a NASA workers member with previous spaceflight expertise to command the trip, while making sure NASA maintains an integrated staff along with a Roscosmos astronaut that can easily work their important systems for proceeded, secure station procedures." While our experts've changed crew before for a variety of factors, scaling down workers for this trip was actually an additional difficult decision to adjust to dued to the fact that the team has taught as a team of four," stated Acaba. "I have miraculous assurance in all our staff, that have actually been actually exceptional throughout instruction for the mission. Zena as well as Stephanie will continue to support their crewmates in advance of launch, and also they exemplify what it means to become a professional rocketeer.".The agency will definitely share reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when accessible." I am actually profoundly pleased with our whole workers," said Cardman, "and I am self-assured Scar and Alex will certainly enter their tasks along with superiority. All four people continue to be committed to the excellence of this objective, and Stephanie and also I anticipate flighting when the time is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I understand Scar and Alex are going to carry out a terrific work with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as component of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 times visited area, this are going to be Hague's 3rd launch and second goal to the orbiting research laboratory. During the course of his 1st launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failure, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months eventually, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also acted as a tour developer aboard the space station in the course of Expeditions 59 and also 60. Hague conducted three spacewalks to upgrade space station electrical power units and mount a docking adapter for business space probe. An active-duty colonel in the united state Space Pressure, Hague completed a developmental rotation at the Self defense Division, as well as functioned as the Space Power's supervisor of test and evaluation coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to duties at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Program till this flight job. Follow @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This are going to be actually Gorbunov's first trip to area and the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he examined design along with certifications in space capsule and also upper phases coming from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Gorbunov finished coming from the army division with a specialized in operating and fixing airplane, helicopters, and also airplane motors. Prior to his assortment as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as an engineer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia as well as sustained freight space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Trip 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will certainly sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner carrying out clinical research study as well as upkeep activities into the station's 24th year of ongoing individual existence.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station research study and also functions 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.