.Publisher's keep in mind: This release was actually updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to repair Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as an objective expert. It was updated once more to repair a launch time.NASA astronaut Scar Hague as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, previously announced as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague as well as Gorbunov are going to flight to the spaceport station as leader and also goal expert, respectively, as component of a two-crew member tour aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved team supplement observes NASA's choice to come back the company's Boeing Staff Tour Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with two unoccupied seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will pilot home along with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to take flight Hague was actually created by NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba had to balance flying a NASA workers participant along with previous spaceflight expertise to control the flight, while making sure NASA keeps an integrated workers with a Roscosmos astronaut that may run their essential bodies for carried on, safe station functions." While our company have actually modified team before for an assortment of causes, downsizing team for this flight was actually another tough selection to get used to given that the staff has trained as a crew of 4," pointed out Acaba. "I have the utmost self-confidence in all our staff, who have been actually superb throughout instruction for the objective. Zena and also Stephanie are going to remain to help their crewmates before launch, as well as they exemplify what it implies to be a specialist rocketeer.".The agency will definitely discuss reassignment details for Cardman as well as Wilson when offered." I am greatly pleased with our entire crew," mentioned Cardman, "and I am actually certain Chip and also Alex will certainly enter their duties with distinction. All four people stay committed to the excellence of this particular objective, as well as Stephanie as well as I look forward to flighting when the moment corrects.".Wilson included, "I know Scar as well as Alex will definitely do a wonderful work with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as part of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 days logged in room, this will be Hague's third launch and also second goal to the orbiting laboratory. Throughout his initial launch in Oct 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster breakdown, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as risk-free touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. Five months later on, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and acted as a tour developer aboard the spaceport station throughout Explorations 59 as well as 60. Hague performed 3 spacewalks to upgrade space station energy units and mount a docking adapter for commercial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the USA Space Power, Hague completed a developing turning at the Protection Division, and served as the Room Pressure's supervisor of exam and evaluation coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to obligations at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Course up until this air travel task. Adhere To @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will certainly be actually Gorbunov's 1st excursion to space and also the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he studied design along with credentials in spacecraft and upper phases from the Moscow Aeronautics Principle. Gorbunov finished from the army department along with a specialty in operating as well as repairing plane, helicopters, and plane engines. Prior to his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as an engineer for Spacecraft Area Corp. Energia and also supported freight space probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Exploration 72 workers aboard the station. They will participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner performing medical investigation and maintenance activities in to the station's 24th year of constant human visibility.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station research 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.