.Publisher's note: This release was actually improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to improve Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as a goal professional. It was actually updated once more to correct a launch time.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, previously announced as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a future goal..Hague and Gorbunov will pilot to the spaceport station as leader and purpose professional, respectively, as component of a two-crew element tour aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded staff complement observes NASA's choice to come back the agency's Boeing Crew Trip Exam uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 along with 2 empty chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to flight home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to take flight Hague was made by NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba must stabilize piloting a NASA workers member with previous spaceflight knowledge to command the air travel, while ensuring NASA maintains an incorporated crew along with a Roscosmos astronaut who may work their vital systems for carried on, risk-free station functions." While our company have actually altered team prior to for a range of causes, scaling down team for this tour was another challenging decision to get used to considered that the workers has actually trained as a workers of 4," mentioned Acaba. "I possess the utmost self-confidence in all our staff, that have actually been outstanding throughout training for the purpose. Zena as well as Stephanie are going to continue to support their crewmates in advance of launch, as well as they embody what it means to become a professional astronaut.".The organization will certainly discuss reassignment details for Cardman as well as Wilson when on call." I am actually deeply proud of our whole entire staff," pointed out Cardman, "and also I am actually certain Chip and Alex are going to step into their tasks with distinction. All 4 of us remain dedicated to the success of this particular purpose, and also Stephanie as well as I expect taking flight when the moment is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I know Scar and also Alex will certainly carry out a wonderful project along with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as component of Trip 72.".Along with 203 days logged in room, this will definitely be actually Hague's 3rd launch and also second goal to the orbiting lab. During his very first launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster breakdown, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also risk-free touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also served as a tour developer aboard the space station throughout Explorations 59 and 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to upgrade space station electrical power bodies and also install a docking adapter for commercial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the united state Space Power, Hague finished a developing turning at the Defense Division, and served as the Space Power's director of examination and also evaluation coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed obligations at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Plan until this trip job. Adhere To @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will certainly be actually Gorbunov's 1st travel to room and the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he examined engineering with qualifications in space probe and top phases from the Moscow Aeronautics Institute. Gorbunov graduated coming from the military division with a specialty in operating and mending plane, helicopters, as well as airplane motors. Prior to his assortment as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as a designer for Rocket Room Corp. Energia and sustained cargo spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov are going to become members of the Exploration 72 workers aboard the station. They are going to participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner conducting medical research study and also upkeep tasks right into the station's 24th year of constant human presence.Discover more regarding International Space Station investigation 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.