.Publisher's note: This release was actually improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to remedy Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as an objective specialist. It was updated again to correct a launch date.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, previously introduced as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague and also Gorbunov will pilot to the spaceport station as leader and also goal professional, specifically, as part of a two-crew member trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved staff supplement follows NASA's selection to come back the company's Boeing Crew Air travel Exam uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with pair of empty seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, are going to fly home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to flight Hague was made by NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba had to stabilize flying a NASA team participant along with previous spaceflight expertise to regulate the tour, while making certain NASA preserves an integrated staff along with a Roscosmos astronaut that can run their important devices for carried on, risk-free terminal procedures." While our experts have actually modified workers prior to for a selection of causes, downsizing crew for this tour was an additional hard selection to adapt to considered that the team has qualified as a staff of 4," claimed Acaba. "I have the utmost assurance in each our staff, who have actually been exceptional throughout training for the purpose. Zena as well as Stephanie will certainly remain to help their crewmates ahead of launch, as well as they exemplify what it suggests to become a qualified rocketeer.".The firm will discuss reassignment details for Cardman as well as Wilson when on call." I am deeply happy with our whole entire staff," pointed out Cardman, "as well as I am self-assured Chip and also Alex will certainly step into their parts along with quality. All four people remain devoted to the effectiveness of this objective, as well as Stephanie as well as I anticipate taking flight when the time is right.".Wilson included, "I know Nick and Alex will definitely carry out a great work along with their job aboard the International Space Station as part of Trip 72.".Along with 203 times logged in space, this will definitely be actually Hague's third launch and also second purpose to the orbiting lab. During the course of his 1st launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer breakdown, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and secure landing in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. Five months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as worked as an air travel engineer aboard the spaceport station in the course of Expeditions 59 as well as 60. Hague administered three spacewalks to upgrade space station power systems as well as install a docking adapter for office spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Space Pressure, Hague finished a developmental turning at the Self defense Division, and also worked as the Room Pressure's director of examination and also evaluation from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to duties at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Plan till this trip assignment. Observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's very first excursion to space as well as the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he examined design along with qualifications in space capsule and upper phases from the Moscow Aeronautics Principle. Gorbunov graduated from the army team along with a specialized in operating and also restoring plane, helicopters, as well as aircraft motors. Before his selection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as a developer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia and assisted payload spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will become members of the Expedition 72 team aboard the terminal. They will join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner carrying out medical research study and maintenance tasks into the terminal's 24th year of continuous individual existence.Learn more concerning International Space 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.