.Publisher's keep in mind: This release was improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to remedy Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as a goal specialist. It was actually updated once again to improve a launch date.NASA astronaut Scar Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, earlier announced as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague and Gorbunov are going to flight to the space station as commander and purpose expert, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew member trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated team complement adheres to NASA's choice to return the agency's Boeing Workers Flight Examination uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 with pair of vacant chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to take flight home along with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to pilot Hague was created through NASA chief rocketeer Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Acaba had to harmonize taking flight a NASA crew participant along with previous spaceflight experience to control the tour, while making sure NASA sustains an incorporated team along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that may function their essential units for continued, risk-free station operations." While our company have actually changed crew just before for an assortment of factors, scaling down workers for this tour was one more hard decision to adapt to given that the crew has actually educated as a staff of 4," claimed Acaba. "I have the utmost self-confidence with all our crew, that have been great throughout training for the mission. Zena and also Stephanie will remain to help their crewmates in advance of launch, and also they embody what it means to become a qualified astronaut.".The company will certainly discuss reassignment details for Cardman and also Wilson when readily available." I am greatly pleased with our whole entire crew," said Cardman, "as well as I am actually positive Chip as well as Alex will step into their functions along with superiority. All four people continue to be specialized to the effectiveness of the objective, and Stephanie and I eagerly anticipate taking flight when the amount of time corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I understand Scar and also Alex will definitely carry out a fantastic project with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as part of Exploration 72.".With 203 times logged in area, this will definitely be Hague's 3rd launch as well as second mission to the orbiting laboratory. During his initial launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failing, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as secure landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months later, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and functioned as a trip developer aboard the spaceport station during the course of Expeditions 59 and also 60. Hague performed three spacewalks to update space station energy devices as well as put up a docking adapter for industrial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Space Power, Hague finished a developmental rotation at the Protection Division, and functioned as the Area Force's supervisor of examination and evaluation coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed roles at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Plan until this air travel task. Follow @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This are going to be actually Gorbunov's initial trip to area as well as the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he researched engineering along with credentials in spacecraft and also upper stages from the Moscow Flying Institute. Gorbunov graduated coming from the army division along with a specialized in operating as well as repairing aircraft, choppers, as well as plane motors. Prior to his assortment as an astronaut in 2018, he operated as a developer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia and supported cargo spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Trip 72 staff aboard the terminal. They are going to join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner administering scientific study and also upkeep activities into the terminal's 24th year of continuous human presence.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station investigation as well as 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.