.Editor's note: This release was improved two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to repair Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as a purpose expert. It was actually upgraded once again to fix a launch time.NASA astronaut Scar Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, formerly announced as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a future mission..Hague and also Gorbunov will fly to the spaceport station as leader as well as mission professional, specifically, as part of a two-crew member tour aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded staff enhance observes NASA's selection to return the agency's Boeing Crew Tour Exam uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 along with 2 deserted chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, will pilot home along with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to take flight Hague was actually created through NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to stabilize piloting a NASA workers member with previous spaceflight adventure to influence the tour, while guaranteeing NASA maintains an incorporated crew with a Roscosmos astronaut who may run their essential devices for carried on, secure station operations." While our company've changed crew before for an assortment of causes, downsizing crew for this air travel was actually one more difficult choice to adjust to dued to the fact that the workers has taught as a team of four," mentioned Acaba. "I possess the utmost peace of mind in all our workers, who have been exceptional throughout training for the goal. Zena and Stephanie are going to remain to aid their crewmates before launch, and they embody what it means to become an expert astronaut.".The agency will discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when on call." I am actually profoundly proud of our whole entire staff," pointed out Cardman, "and I am actually confident Chip as well as Alex will definitely enter their tasks along with excellence. All four people stay committed to the results of this purpose, as well as Stephanie and also I eagerly anticipate flying when the moment corrects.".Wilson added, "I recognize Scar and also Alex will do a great job along with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as aspect of Exploration 72.".With 203 days logged in space, this will definitely be Hague's 3rd launch and also 2nd goal to the orbiting laboratory. During the course of his initial launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer breakdown, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and secure landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months later on, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as functioned as a tour engineer aboard the space station in the course of Expeditions 59 and also 60. Hague performed three spacewalks to upgrade space station energy devices and put in a docking adapter for industrial space probe. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Area Force, Hague finished a developmental rotation at the Self defense Department, and acted as the Area Pressure's supervisor of test as well as analysis from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed obligations at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Program until this air travel project. Adhere To @astrohague on X and Instagram.This are going to be actually Gorbunov's first journey to room and also the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he researched engineering along with qualifications in spacecraft and top stages coming from the Moscow Aviation Principle. Gorbunov finished coming from the armed forces department with a specialized in operating and also mending airplane, choppers, and also airplane engines. Prior to his choice as an astronaut in 2018, he operated as a designer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia and supported packages space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov are going to become members of the Trip 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will certainly join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner performing medical investigation as well as routine maintenance activities in to the terminal's 24th year of constant human presence.Find out more about International Spaceport station study and also 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.