.Editor's keep in mind: This release was updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to improve Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as an objective expert. It was actually updated once more to deal with a launch date.NASA rocketeer Chip Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, formerly revealed as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a future purpose..Hague and Gorbunov will fly to the spaceport station as commander and also goal professional, respectively, as part of a two-crew member tour aboard a SpaceX Monster.The improved team complement observes NASA's selection to come back the company's Boeing Staff Tour Exam uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with two vacant chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner space probe in June, will take flight home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to fly Hague was actually created through NASA principal astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba must harmonize flighting a NASA team member along with previous spaceflight knowledge to command the tour, while ensuring NASA keeps an incorporated staff with a Roscosmos astronaut who can easily operate their crucial devices for carried on, safe terminal procedures." While our experts've altered crew prior to for a range of factors, scaling down workers for this tour was an additional difficult selection to adjust to considered that the workers has actually trained as a workers of four," stated Acaba. "I have the utmost confidence in each our staff, that have actually been actually great throughout training for the purpose. Zena and also Stephanie will definitely continue to assist their crewmates in front of launch, as well as they show what it indicates to be an expert rocketeer.".The firm will definitely discuss reassignment information for Cardman and also Wilson when offered." I am actually heavily pleased with our whole entire workers," pointed out Cardman, "and also I am actually self-assured Chip as well as Alex will enter their jobs along with quality. All four of us remain devoted to the excellence of this objective, as well as Stephanie and also I expect piloting when the time is right.".Wilson added, "I understand Chip and also Alex will carry out a wonderful task along with their job aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72.".With 203 days visited space, this will certainly be Hague's 3rd launch and also second mission to the orbiting laboratory. During his initial launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer breakdown, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as secure landing in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. Five months later, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as worked as an air travel engineer aboard the space station throughout Trips 59 and also 60. Hague performed 3 spacewalks to update space station power devices and set up a docking adapter for business space probe. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Area Force, Hague finished a developing rotation at the Defense Division, and also functioned as the Room Pressure's supervisor of test and also assessment coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to duties at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner Plan up until this tour project. Comply With @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will be Gorbunov's very first vacation to room as well as the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he researched engineering along with credentials in spacecraft and also upper stages from the Moscow Flying Principle. Gorbunov graduated from the military division with a specialty in operating and also restoring plane, choppers, and aircraft motors. Prior to his collection as an astronaut in 2018, he operated as a developer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia and also supported cargo spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov are going to enter of the Exploration 72 team aboard the terminal. They will certainly sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner performing clinical study and upkeep activities in to the station's 24th year of continual human presence.Learn more regarding International Space Station research study and also operations 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.