.Publisher's note: This launch was updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to improve Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as a purpose professional. It was updated once more to repair a launch time.NASA astronaut Scar Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, recently introduced as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a future objective..Hague and Gorbunov will flight to the space station as leader and also goal expert, respectively, as aspect of a two-crew element flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated crew enhance observes NASA's selection to come back the organization's Boeing Crew Trip Test uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 with 2 unoccupied chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to flight home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to take flight Hague was made by NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba had to stabilize piloting a NASA staff member with previous spaceflight experience to control the trip, while making sure NASA maintains an incorporated workers with a Roscosmos astronaut who can function their crucial bodies for continued, safe terminal procedures." While we've altered staff prior to for a range of main reasons, downsizing crew for this air travel was actually yet another tough decision to get used to considered that the crew has actually trained as a team of four," stated Acaba. "I have miraculous confidence in every our team, who have been actually outstanding throughout instruction for the goal. Zena and also Stephanie will remain to aid their crewmates ahead of launch, and they embody what it indicates to become an expert rocketeer.".The company will certainly discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when accessible." I am greatly pleased with our whole entire workers," mentioned Cardman, "and also I am confident Scar and also Alex will enter their tasks with superiority. All four of us continue to be committed to the excellence of the objective, and also Stephanie as well as I eagerly anticipate piloting when the amount of time corrects.".Wilson included, "I recognize Nick and Alex will certainly perform an excellent work along with their job aboard the International Space Station as aspect of Trip 72.".Along with 203 days visited space, this will definitely be Hague's third launch as well as second objective to the orbiting research laboratory. In the course of his 1st launch in October 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer failure, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as safe landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months later on, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also served as an air travel engineer aboard the space station throughout Trips 59 and 60. Hague performed 3 spacewalks to improve spaceport station energy systems and set up a docking adapter for commercial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the USA Area Force, Hague completed a developing turning at the Protection Department, and acted as the Area Force's supervisor of test as well as assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to tasks at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner Plan up until this trip project. Follow @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will certainly be actually Gorbunov's very first journey to space and also the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he studied design along with qualifications in space capsule as well as top phases coming from the Moscow Aeronautics Institute. Gorbunov graduated coming from the military team along with a specialized in operating as well as repairing aircraft, helicopters, and also airplane motors. Just before his option as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as a designer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia and also sustained payload spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the station. They will certainly sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner conducting scientific investigation and upkeep tasks in to the station's 24th year of continual individual visibility.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station investigation and 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.