.Editor's details: This release was actually updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to improve Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as a goal expert. It was actually updated once again to fix a launch date.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, recently announced as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a potential goal..Hague as well as Gorbunov are going to pilot to the space station as leader and also purpose professional, specifically, as portion of a two-crew element flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded crew enhance observes NASA's choice to return the organization's Boeing Staff Air travel Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with 2 unoccupied chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to take flight home along with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to fly Hague was made by NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to stabilize flighting a NASA workers participant with previous spaceflight expertise to control the air travel, while guaranteeing NASA maintains an incorporated workers along with a Roscosmos astronaut who may function their essential systems for continued, secure station functions." While we've modified staff before for a range of causes, downsizing team for this trip was actually yet another challenging choice to adapt to given that the crew has actually educated as a workers of 4," claimed Acaba. "I have miraculous assurance in each our workers, that have been outstanding throughout training for the purpose. Zena and also Stephanie will definitely continue to support their crewmates before launch, and they exemplify what it means to become a professional astronaut.".The firm is going to share reassignment details for Cardman and also Wilson when offered." I am actually greatly proud of our entire staff," stated Cardman, "as well as I am actually positive Chip and Alex will definitely enter their parts along with excellence. All 4 people stay committed to the success of this mission, and Stephanie as well as I look forward to flying when the amount of time corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I recognize Scar and also Alex will definitely perform an excellent project along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as aspect of Trip 72.".Along with 203 days visited space, this will definitely be Hague's third launch as well as 2nd mission to the orbiting lab. During the course of his first launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failure, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as secure landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months eventually, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also worked as a flight developer aboard the spaceport station throughout Expeditions 59 and also 60. Hague conducted 3 spacewalks to upgrade space station power units as well as install a docking adapter for office space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the USA Area Force, Hague accomplished a developmental turning at the Defense Division, and also worked as the Area Force's director of test and assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed duties at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner Program till this trip job. Follow @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will be actually Gorbunov's 1st trip to room as well as the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he analyzed engineering along with credentials in space probe as well as top stages from the Moscow Flying Principle. Gorbunov earned a degree coming from the army division with a specialty in operating and also repairing aircraft, choppers, and also aircraft engines. Before his option as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as a designer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia as well as supported freight space probe launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov are going to enter of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the station. They will sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner conducting medical study as well as servicing activities right into the terminal's 24th year of ongoing human visibility.Learn more concerning International Space Station study and functions 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.