.Publisher's keep in mind: This launch was updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to improve Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a mission specialist. It was actually updated again to repair a launch date.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, previously revealed as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a future purpose..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to pilot to the spaceport station as commander as well as mission expert, specifically, as component of a two-crew element trip aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded staff supplement complies with NASA's choice to return the agency's Boeing Crew Trip Test uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 with two vacant chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, who introduced aboard the Starliner space probe in June, will fly home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to fly Hague was actually created through NASA chief rocketeer Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba must harmonize flighting a NASA workers participant along with previous spaceflight knowledge to influence the flight, while guaranteeing NASA maintains an integrated workers with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that may function their critical systems for continued, safe station functions." While our company have actually altered workers just before for an assortment of reasons, scaling down crew for this flight was an additional difficult decision to adapt to given that the workers has taught as a staff of four," claimed Acaba. "I have the utmost self-confidence in all our crew, that have been exceptional throughout training for the objective. Zena and also Stephanie will definitely continue to help their crewmates before launch, and they exemplify what it means to be a professional astronaut.".The firm will discuss reassignment information for Cardman and Wilson when readily available." I am greatly proud of our whole crew," said Cardman, "as well as I am actually positive Chip and Alex will step into their functions with quality. All four of us remain specialized to the results of this purpose, and Stephanie and I look forward to flying when the moment corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I know Scar and Alex will certainly do a wonderful project along with their work aboard the International Space Station as aspect of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 days visited room, this will certainly be actually Hague's 3rd launch and also 2nd mission to the orbiting research laboratory. Throughout his very first launch in Oct 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer failing, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also secure landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months eventually, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also acted as a flight engineer aboard the spaceport station during the course of Trips 59 and 60. Hague administered three spacewalks to upgrade space station energy bodies as well as set up a docking adapter for office space probe. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Pressure, Hague completed a developing turning at the Protection Division, and worked as the Area Power's supervisor of exam and also evaluation from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to tasks at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Program till this flight assignment. Comply With @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will be Gorbunov's 1st journey to space and the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he analyzed design with qualifications in spacecraft as well as top stages from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov finished from the military department along with a specialty in operating as well as repairing aircraft, choppers, and aircraft motors. Prior to his option as an astronaut in 2018, he functioned as a developer for Rocket Room Corp. Energia as well as assisted packages space probe launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will become members of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the station. They are going to join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner carrying out scientific study and upkeep tasks in to the station's 24th year of constant individual existence.Find out more concerning International Spaceport station research study 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.