.Publisher's details: This release was actually upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to remedy Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's part as a purpose professional. It was updated again to correct a launch day.NASA astronaut Scar Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, recently introduced as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a future goal..Hague as well as Gorbunov will take flight to the spaceport station as leader as well as purpose expert, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew member tour aboard a SpaceX Monster.The improved crew supplement observes NASA's selection to return the firm's Boeing Workers Trip Exam uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 with 2 empty chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will take flight home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to fly Hague was actually made by NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba had to harmonize taking flight a NASA team member along with previous spaceflight expertise to regulate the tour, while ensuring NASA keeps an incorporated crew along with a Roscosmos astronaut that can easily work their vital bodies for carried on, risk-free station procedures." While our company have actually modified crew prior to for a wide array of factors, downsizing team for this air travel was an additional challenging decision to get used to considered that the staff has actually trained as a team of 4," claimed Acaba. "I possess the utmost confidence in each our crew, who have been exceptional throughout training for the objective. Zena as well as Stephanie will remain to aid their crewmates in advance of launch, and also they display what it implies to become a professional astronaut.".The company is going to share reassignment details for Cardman as well as Wilson when accessible." I am actually profoundly proud of our whole staff," stated Cardman, "as well as I am self-assured Scar as well as Alex will definitely step into their roles along with quality. All 4 of us continue to be dedicated to the effectiveness of this particular goal, and Stephanie as well as I eagerly anticipate flighting when the moment corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I recognize Chip and also Alex will certainly do a fantastic job with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Trip 72.".Along with 203 times visited area, this will certainly be actually Hague's 3rd launch and also 2nd purpose to the orbiting laboratory. During his initial launch in Oct 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer breakdown, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months later on, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as functioned as a tour engineer aboard the space station during the course of Trips 59 as well as 60. Hague conducted 3 spacewalks to improve spaceport station electrical power devices and mount a docking adapter for office space probe. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Space Force, Hague completed a developmental rotation at the Protection Team, and served as the Room Force's director of test and also examination coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed tasks at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner System till this flight job. Adhere To @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will definitely be actually Gorbunov's 1st excursion to space and also the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he studied design with credentials in space capsule as well as upper phases from the Moscow Air Travel Principle. Gorbunov finished from the army team along with a specialized in operating as well as fixing plane, helicopters, and also aircraft engines. Just before his choice as an astronaut in 2018, he functioned as an engineer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia as well as sustained packages space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will enter of the Exploration 72 team aboard the station. They will certainly join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner administering clinical research study and also routine maintenance activities in to the terminal's 24th year of continual individual visibility.Discover more concerning International Space Station research as well as procedures 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.