.Editor's details: This launch was improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to correct Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as a goal professional. It was updated again to improve a launch date.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, recently announced as crewmates, are actually entitled for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to take flight to the space station as commander and objective specialist, specifically, as part of a two-crew element tour aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated team enhance adheres to NASA's decision to come back the organization's Boeing Staff Flight Exam uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 along with 2 uninhabited seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner space probe in June, will fly home along with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to take flight Hague was made through NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to balance flighting a NASA crew participant with previous spaceflight adventure to control the air travel, while making certain NASA preserves an incorporated crew with a Roscosmos astronaut that can easily run their essential devices for proceeded, secure station operations." While our experts have actually changed crew just before for a wide array of reasons, scaling down team for this tour was another challenging choice to adjust to given that the staff has actually trained as a workers of 4," claimed Acaba. "I have miraculous confidence in each our crew, that have actually been exceptional throughout training for the objective. Zena as well as Stephanie will certainly continue to aid their crewmates in front of launch, and also they show what it implies to become an expert astronaut.".The firm will definitely discuss reassignment information for Cardman and also Wilson when offered." I am actually heavily happy with our entire crew," mentioned Cardman, "as well as I am actually self-assured Chip as well as Alex will enter their tasks with superiority. All four of us continue to be committed to the excellence of this goal, and Stephanie and I await flighting when the amount of time corrects.".Wilson included, "I understand Nick and also Alex are going to carry out an excellent task with their work aboard the International Space Station as component of Exploration 72.".With 203 times visited room, this will certainly be Hague's 3rd launch and also second mission to the orbiting lab. In the course of his 1st launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer breakdown, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also acted as a tour developer aboard the spaceport station throughout Expeditions 59 as well as 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station power units and also put up a docking adapter for commercial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the united state Room Power, Hague accomplished a developing rotation at the Self defense Team, as well as acted as the Room Power's director of exam as well as assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed obligations at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner Course till this flight assignment. Observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will definitely be actually Gorbunov's very first vacation to area as well as the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he studied design along with credentials in space capsule and also higher phases coming from the Moscow Air Travel Institute. Gorbunov graduated from the army division with a specialized in operating and also mending airplane, choppers, as well as airplane motors. Just before his selection as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as an engineer for Rocket Room Corp. Energia and also sustained payload spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the terminal. They are going to sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner performing scientific research as well as routine maintenance tasks into the station's 24th year of continuous individual visibility.Learn more concerning International Space Station research as well as 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.