.Publisher's keep in mind: This release was actually upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to repair Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's function as a mission specialist. It was actually updated once again to correct a launch time.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, formerly introduced as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a future mission..Hague and Gorbunov will take flight to the spaceport station as leader and also objective professional, specifically, as portion of a two-crew element flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated staff enhance complies with NASA's choice to return the agency's Boeing Crew Tour Exam uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with 2 uninhabited seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who introduced aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to pilot home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to fly Hague was created by NASA principal astronaut Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba needed to harmonize piloting a NASA workers participant along with previous spaceflight knowledge to control the flight, while ensuring NASA sustains an integrated workers along with a Roscosmos astronaut that can run their critical systems for continued, risk-free station functions." While we've transformed crew prior to for a variety of factors, downsizing staff for this air travel was another tough decision to adapt to considered that the workers has actually educated as a staff of four," stated Acaba. "I possess miraculous peace of mind in all our crew, that have been actually great throughout training for the mission. Zena and Stephanie will definitely continue to aid their crewmates in front of launch, and also they display what it indicates to be an expert astronaut.".The agency will definitely share reassignment particulars for Cardman as well as Wilson when offered." I am greatly pleased with our whole staff," claimed Cardman, "and I am actually positive Nick as well as Alex will certainly enter their jobs with distinction. All 4 people remain dedicated to the effectiveness of this objective, as well as Stephanie and also I eagerly anticipate piloting when the moment is right.".Wilson included, "I recognize Chip and also Alex will definitely perform a great job with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as component of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 days visited room, this will be Hague's third launch and 2nd objective to the orbiting lab. During his very first launch in Oct 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer breakdown, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. Five months later, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and acted as a trip engineer aboard the spaceport station during Explorations 59 and also 60. Hague conducted 3 spacewalks to update space station power devices and also put up a docking adapter for business spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Power, Hague finished a developmental turning at the Defense Division, and also worked as the Room Force's director of test as well as examination coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to responsibilities at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Program till this air travel project. Follow @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will certainly be actually Gorbunov's very first travel to space and the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he examined engineering with credentials in space capsule and also upper stages from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov graduated coming from the armed forces department along with a specialized in operating and fixing plane, helicopters, as well as aircraft motors. Just before his selection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as a developer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia as well as supported cargo space probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will enter of the Trip 72 staff aboard the station. They are going to participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner conducting clinical research study and also servicing tasks right into the station's 24th year of continual human visibility.Discover more regarding International Space Station investigation and also functions 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.