.Editor's details: This release was upgraded two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to repair Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as an objective expert. It was actually improved again to repair a launch date.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, recently introduced as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a potential goal..Hague as well as Gorbunov are going to flight to the spaceport station as commander and mission specialist, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew member air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated staff supplement adheres to NASA's selection to come back the company's Boeing Workers Trip Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with pair of abandoned chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, are going to flight home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to fly Hague was made through NASA principal astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to balance taking flight a NASA workers participant along with previous spaceflight experience to influence the flight, while ensuring NASA keeps an incorporated crew with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can run their crucial devices for carried on, secure station functions." While we've changed workers before for a selection of causes, scaling down team for this tour was actually one more challenging decision to get used to dued to the fact that the workers has taught as a workers of 4," claimed Acaba. "I possess miraculous assurance in all our crew, who have been superb throughout training for the goal. Zena and Stephanie will definitely continue to assist their crewmates in advance of launch, and they exhibit what it suggests to become a professional rocketeer.".The agency will certainly discuss reassignment information for Cardman as well as Wilson when available." I am actually greatly proud of our entire crew," stated Cardman, "as well as I am self-assured Scar and Alex will certainly step into their tasks along with excellence. All 4 people stay devoted to the excellence of this particular goal, and Stephanie and also I expect flying when the moment is right.".Wilson added, "I know Nick and also Alex are going to do a wonderful project with their job aboard the International Space Station as aspect of Trip 72.".Along with 203 days visited space, this will certainly be actually Hague's 3rd launch as well as 2nd mission to the orbiting research laboratory. During the course of his very first launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failure, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later on, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as worked as a tour engineer aboard the space station during Explorations 59 and 60. Hague performed three spacewalks to upgrade space station power devices as well as mount a docking adapter for commercial space probe. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Area Force, Hague accomplished a developmental turning at the Self defense Division, and also acted as the Space Power's supervisor of examination as well as assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to responsibilities at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Course up until this flight job. Observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will certainly be actually Gorbunov's initial excursion to area as well as the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he researched engineering with certifications in space probe and also higher phases from the Moscow Aeronautics Institute. Gorbunov earned a degree from the armed forces division along with a specialized in operating and also restoring aircraft, helicopters, and aircraft motors. Prior to his choice as an astronaut in 2018, he functioned as a developer for Spacecraft Area Corp. Energia as well as sustained payload space probe launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will become members of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the station. They will certainly participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner administering clinical analysis and upkeep tasks into the station's 24th year of ongoing individual existence.Learn more concerning International Space Station analysis and functions 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.