.Editor's keep in mind: This release was upgraded two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to deal with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as an objective professional. It was updated again to correct a launch day.NASA rocketeer Chip Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, previously announced as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a future mission..Hague as well as Gorbunov are going to pilot to the space station as commander as well as objective expert, specifically, as component of a two-crew member tour aboard a SpaceX Monster.The improved workers enhance adheres to NASA's selection to return the firm's Boeing Team Flight Examination uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with two unoccupied seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who released aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will pilot home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to take flight Hague was made by NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba needed to balance taking flight a NASA team member with previous spaceflight expertise to influence the tour, while making certain NASA keeps an integrated staff with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can function their critical bodies for proceeded, secure station operations." While we've modified crew just before for an assortment of causes, scaling down team for this tour was an additional hard choice to get used to considered that the staff has educated as a crew of four," claimed Acaba. "I have miraculous confidence in every our workers, who have actually been outstanding throughout instruction for the objective. Zena and also Stephanie will remain to support their crewmates ahead of launch, as well as they embody what it indicates to become a qualified astronaut.".The firm will share reassignment details for Cardman and also Wilson when readily available." I am deeply proud of our entire staff," stated Cardman, "and also I am actually certain Chip and also Alex will certainly enter their tasks with quality. All 4 of us stay specialized to the success of this objective, and Stephanie and I anticipate taking flight when the moment corrects.".Wilson included, "I understand Scar and also Alex are going to perform a great task with their job aboard the International Space Station as aspect of Trip 72.".With 203 days visited room, this are going to be actually Hague's 3rd launch and second objective to the orbiting lab. During the course of his first launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer failure, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months later, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as served as a tour designer aboard the space station in the course of Trips 59 and 60. Hague performed 3 spacewalks to upgrade space station power units as well as set up a docking adapter for commercial space probe. An active-duty colonel in the united state Room Pressure, Hague accomplished a developmental turning at the Protection Division, as well as functioned as the Area Power's director of examination as well as analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed roles at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Plan up until this tour task. Follow @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will be Gorbunov's initial excursion to space as well as the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he studied design with qualifications in spacecraft and also upper phases from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov finished from the armed forces department with a specialized in operating and also restoring plane, choppers, and also airplane motors. Before his selection as an astronaut in 2018, he operated as a designer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia and supported packages spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov are going to enter of the Expedition 72 crew aboard the station. They will join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner conducting medical research study and routine maintenance tasks into the station's 24th year of constant human presence.Find out more regarding International Space Station research study and 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.