.Publisher's note: This launch was improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to improve Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as an objective professional. It was actually updated again to remedy a launch date.NASA astronaut Scar Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, earlier declared as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague and Gorbunov are going to fly to the space station as commander and also goal expert, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew member trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded workers complement observes NASA's decision to come back the agency's Boeing Workers Tour Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with pair of deserted chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that released aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will fly home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to take flight Hague was made through NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to harmonize piloting a NASA staff participant with previous spaceflight knowledge to influence the tour, while ensuring NASA keeps an incorporated team along with a Roscosmos astronaut that can work their critical bodies for carried on, safe station functions." While we have actually changed staff just before for a variety of causes, scaling down workers for this trip was an additional challenging choice to get used to given that the workers has qualified as a workers of four," mentioned Acaba. "I possess the utmost self-confidence in every our workers, that have actually been great throughout instruction for the objective. Zena and Stephanie will remain to support their crewmates before launch, as well as they display what it means to be an expert rocketeer.".The company will definitely share reassignment information for Cardman and also Wilson when accessible." I am deeply proud of our entire staff," said Cardman, "as well as I am actually confident Chip and also Alex will definitely enter their functions with excellence. All four of us remain specialized to the results of the goal, and also Stephanie as well as I anticipate flying when the amount of time is right.".Wilson included, "I know Nick and also Alex will definitely carry out a terrific task along with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Trip 72.".With 203 times logged in space, this will be actually Hague's third launch and second goal to the orbiting laboratory. During the course of his initial launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failure, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as secure landing in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later on, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and worked as an air travel developer aboard the spaceport station during Explorations 59 as well as 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to upgrade space station electrical power devices as well as install a docking adapter for office spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the united state Room Power, Hague finished a developing rotation at the Defense Department, and also acted as the Room Power's director of examination and analysis from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed responsibilities at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Plan till this tour task. Comply With @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's 1st travel to room as well as the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he examined engineering with certifications in spacecraft as well as upper phases from the Moscow Aeronautics Institute. Gorbunov finished coming from the army team with a specialized in operating as well as fixing aircraft, helicopters, as well as plane motors. Before his choice as an astronaut in 2018, he operated as an engineer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia as well as supported cargo space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the terminal. They will certainly participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner administering medical investigation as well as upkeep activities into the terminal's 24th year of continuous human visibility.Discover more regarding International Space Station analysis and 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.