.Publisher's keep in mind: This release was actually improved two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to correct Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as a goal professional. It was improved once more to fix a launch date.NASA astronaut Scar Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, recently declared as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a potential mission..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to fly to the space station as commander and also goal expert, respectively, as part of a two-crew element flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated team enhance adheres to NASA's decision to return the agency's Boeing Team Flight Exam uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with 2 vacant seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, will pilot home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to take flight Hague was made through NASA principal astronaut Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba must balance flighting a NASA workers participant with previous spaceflight experience to regulate the trip, while guaranteeing NASA keeps an integrated workers with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can run their crucial devices for carried on, safe station operations." While our experts've transformed staff prior to for a selection of factors, downsizing staff for this air travel was yet another tough selection to adapt to considered that the staff has qualified as a team of 4," stated Acaba. "I have the utmost confidence with all our crew, that have been actually outstanding throughout training for the purpose. Zena as well as Stephanie will continue to aid their crewmates ahead of launch, and also they display what it suggests to be a professional rocketeer.".The firm is going to discuss reassignment details for Cardman as well as Wilson when accessible." I am actually greatly proud of our entire crew," said Cardman, "and also I am confident Scar and Alex will enter their tasks with superiority. All 4 of us stay dedicated to the effectiveness of this objective, and Stephanie as well as I anticipate piloting when the time is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I recognize Chip and Alex will perform an excellent job with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as part of Trip 72.".Along with 203 times logged in space, this are going to be Hague's third launch and also second purpose to the orbiting laboratory. During his initial launch in October 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer failing, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and safe landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months eventually, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and functioned as a flight developer aboard the space station in the course of Trips 59 as well as 60. Hague conducted three spacewalks to update spaceport station power bodies as well as put up a docking adapter for industrial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Room Force, Hague accomplished a developing rotation at the Protection Department, and worked as the Room Pressure's director of exam and evaluation coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to tasks at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Course up until this tour assignment. Observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.This are going to be actually Gorbunov's first travel to area and also the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he analyzed design with certifications in space probe and upper phases coming from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the armed forces division along with a specialized in operating and repairing aircraft, helicopters, as well as plane motors. Before his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as a designer for Spacecraft Area Corp. Energia as well as sustained payload spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will become members of the Exploration 72 workers aboard the station. They will definitely sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner conducting clinical study as well as maintenance activities into the station's 24th year of ongoing human visibility.Discover more regarding International Space Station research and also procedures 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.