.Publisher's keep in mind: This launch was actually upgraded two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to repair Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as a goal professional. It was improved once more to fix a launch day.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, previously declared as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a future objective..Hague and Gorbunov will fly to the spaceport station as leader and mission professional, specifically, as portion of a two-crew member trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated staff enhance follows NASA's decision to return the agency's Boeing Staff Flight Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with 2 unoccupied chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that released aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to fly home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to take flight Hague was made by NASA principal astronaut Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba must harmonize piloting a NASA staff participant along with previous spaceflight adventure to influence the flight, while making certain NASA keeps an incorporated crew along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can function their critical units for continued, secure station operations." While we have actually changed staff before for a range of causes, downsizing staff for this flight was actually an additional difficult choice to get used to dued to the fact that the team has qualified as a crew of 4," mentioned Acaba. "I possess the utmost peace of mind in each our workers, that have been actually great throughout instruction for the mission. Zena and Stephanie will remain to help their crewmates in advance of launch, and they show what it indicates to be a qualified rocketeer.".The firm will certainly discuss reassignment information for Cardman and also Wilson when on call." I am heavily pleased with our whole entire crew," said Cardman, "as well as I am actually certain Scar and also Alex will definitely step into their parts along with distinction. All four of us continue to be committed to the excellence of this goal, and Stephanie and I anticipate taking flight when the moment is right.".Wilson added, "I understand Nick and also Alex will do a wonderful project with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 days logged in area, this will definitely be Hague's 3rd launch as well as 2nd mission to the orbiting lab. In the course of his very first launch in Oct 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer failing, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months later on, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and worked as an air travel developer aboard the space station during the course of Trips 59 and also 60. Hague conducted three spacewalks to update space station energy systems as well as mount a docking adapter for office spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the united state Room Pressure, Hague completed a developmental rotation at the Defense Team, and also worked as the Area Force's director of examination and also assessment coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to tasks at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner System until this trip assignment. Comply With @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will definitely be Gorbunov's 1st trip to space and also the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he examined engineering with qualifications in spacecraft as well as upper phases coming from the Moscow Aviation Principle. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the military team with a specialty in operating and also mending aircraft, choppers, and aircraft motors. Prior to his option as an astronaut in 2018, he operated as a designer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia as well as sustained freight spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Expedition 72 team aboard the station. They will sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner administering medical analysis and also maintenance tasks right into the terminal's 24th year of continual human existence.Find out more about International Spaceport station analysis as well as 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.