.Editor's keep in mind: This release was actually improved two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to repair Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as an objective specialist. It was actually improved once again to remedy a launch day.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, formerly revealed as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a future objective..Hague and Gorbunov will fly to the spaceport station as commander and objective specialist, respectively, as aspect of a two-crew trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded team supplement observes NASA's decision to return the organization's Boeing Staff Trip Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with pair of unoccupied chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to take flight home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to fly Hague was actually created through NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba must stabilize flying a NASA team participant along with previous spaceflight experience to regulate the trip, while making certain NASA sustains an integrated team along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can easily work their important bodies for carried on, secure station procedures." While our team have actually changed workers prior to for a wide array of explanations, scaling down workers for this flight was actually another hard selection to get used to given that the team has taught as a workers of 4," pointed out Acaba. "I possess miraculous confidence in every our team, that have actually been actually outstanding throughout instruction for the purpose. Zena as well as Stephanie will definitely remain to aid their crewmates in advance of launch, and also they exhibit what it suggests to become a professional rocketeer.".The firm will definitely discuss reassignment information for Cardman as well as Wilson when available." I am actually heavily pleased with our entire team," stated Cardman, "and also I am positive Scar and Alex will definitely step into their tasks along with distinction. All four people continue to be specialized to the excellence of this mission, and Stephanie as well as I await taking flight when the moment corrects.".Wilson added, "I understand Chip and also Alex will perform a terrific work with their job aboard the International Space Station as aspect of Expedition 72.".With 203 days visited space, this will certainly be actually Hague's third launch as well as second purpose to the orbiting laboratory. In the course of his very first launch in Oct 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer failure, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months later on, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and acted as a flight developer aboard the spaceport station throughout Trips 59 and also 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to upgrade space station power systems and install a docking adapter for business space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Room Pressure, Hague finished a developmental turning at the Protection Division, and functioned as the Space Force's director of test as well as examination from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed duties at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner System up until this air travel assignment. Observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.This are going to be Gorbunov's initial trip to room as well as the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he examined design with certifications in space probe and also upper phases from the Moscow Aeronautics Institute. Gorbunov finished coming from the armed forces department with a specialized in operating and also mending airplane, helicopters, and also aircraft motors. Just before his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as a developer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia and also supported packages space probe launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Expedition 72 crew aboard the station. They will certainly join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner carrying out clinical analysis as well as servicing tasks right into the station's 24th year of continuous human existence.Find out more concerning International Spaceport station analysis as well as 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.