.Editor's note: This release was improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to improve Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a purpose specialist. It was actually improved once again to correct a launch time.NASA astronaut Chip Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, previously announced as crewmates, are actually entitled for reassignment on a potential objective..Hague and Gorbunov are going to fly to the space station as commander and also objective professional, respectively, as part of a two-crew member flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded crew enhance complies with NASA's selection to return the company's Boeing Staff Trip Examination uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with pair of abandoned chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that released aboard the Starliner space probe in June, will take flight home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to flight Hague was actually made by NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Acaba needed to balance flying a NASA team member with previous spaceflight experience to influence the air travel, while ensuring NASA sustains an integrated workers with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can function their essential devices for carried on, secure station functions." While our team have actually changed workers before for an assortment of factors, scaling down crew for this air travel was actually another challenging selection to adjust to given that the staff has educated as a crew of four," pointed out Acaba. "I possess the utmost peace of mind in each our workers, that have actually been excellent throughout training for the objective. Zena and Stephanie will definitely continue to support their crewmates ahead of launch, and also they display what it indicates to be a professional astronaut.".The agency is going to share reassignment particulars for Cardman as well as Wilson when readily available." I am deeply proud of our entire crew," stated Cardman, "and also I am actually self-assured Scar as well as Alex will enter their parts with excellence. All four of us continue to be devoted to the results of this purpose, as well as Stephanie and I look forward to piloting when the time is right.".Wilson included, "I know Scar and also Alex are going to carry out an excellent project with their job aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72.".With 203 days visited space, this will be Hague's 3rd launch and also second objective to the orbiting research laboratory. In the course of his very first launch in Oct 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer failing, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months eventually, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as served as a tour engineer aboard the space station throughout Expeditions 59 as well as 60. Hague performed 3 spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station electrical power systems and put up a docking adapter for commercial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the united state Room Force, Hague accomplished a developmental turning at the Defense Department, as well as functioned as the Area Power's supervisor of exam and also assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed obligations at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Program until this trip project. Observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will be actually Gorbunov's very first vacation to space and the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he analyzed design with qualifications in space probe and also top phases coming from the Moscow Flying Institute. Gorbunov earned a degree from the army department along with a specialty in operating and mending aircraft, helicopters, and airplane motors. Before his option as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as a designer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia and sustained packages space probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov are going to enter of the Trip 72 workers aboard the station. They will definitely join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner administering medical analysis and also upkeep activities into the station's 24th year of continuous human visibility.Discover more about International Space Station analysis as well as 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.