.Publisher's details: This launch was improved two times on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to repair Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's part as a mission specialist. It was actually updated again to correct a launch time.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, earlier revealed as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a future mission..Hague and Gorbunov are going to fly to the space station as leader and purpose expert, respectively, as component of a two-crew flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated crew complement complies with NASA's choice to return the firm's Boeing Workers Tour Examination uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with two deserted chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that released aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will pilot home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to pilot Hague was actually created through NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to balance piloting a NASA staff participant with previous spaceflight experience to command the tour, while making certain NASA preserves an incorporated crew with a Roscosmos astronaut that can easily run their critical bodies for carried on, safe terminal operations." While our company have actually changed staff just before for a wide array of reasons, downsizing crew for this trip was another hard choice to adjust to considered that the crew has actually taught as a crew of 4," stated Acaba. "I have miraculous self-confidence in every our workers, who have been actually exceptional throughout instruction for the objective. Zena and Stephanie will definitely remain to support their crewmates in front of launch, and they show what it implies to become an expert rocketeer.".The firm will definitely discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when readily available." I am actually heavily proud of our entire workers," said Cardman, "and I am self-assured Scar and also Alex will certainly step into their functions along with distinction. All four of us stay dedicated to the success of this particular goal, and also Stephanie as well as I await flighting when the time corrects.".Wilson included, "I recognize Chip and Alex will certainly perform a terrific task with their work aboard the International Space Station as part of Exploration 72.".With 203 days visited room, this will certainly be actually Hague's 3rd launch as well as second mission to the orbiting laboratory. In the course of his 1st launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failing, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months eventually, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as worked as a trip developer aboard the spaceport station during Explorations 59 as well as 60. Hague conducted three spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station energy units and put in a docking adapter for commercial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Force, Hague completed a developing turning at the Protection Department, and also functioned as the Room Power's director of examination as well as assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to roles at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Program up until this air travel assignment. Adhere To @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This are going to be Gorbunov's 1st journey to space and the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he studied engineering with credentials in spacecraft and also upper stages coming from the Moscow Air Travel Institute. Gorbunov finished from the armed forces team with a specialty in operating as well as mending aircraft, choppers, as well as airplane engines. Just before his assortment as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as a designer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia and also sustained cargo spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Trip 72 staff aboard the station. They will certainly sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner administering medical study as well as routine maintenance activities into the station's 24th year of continual human visibility.Discover 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.