.Publisher's note: This release was updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to improve Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as an objective expert. It was actually improved once more to fix a launch date.NASA astronaut Scar Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, previously declared as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague and Gorbunov will flight to the spaceport station as commander as well as objective professional, respectively, as component of a two-crew tour aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded team complement adheres to NASA's selection to return the firm's Boeing Team Air travel Exam uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with two empty chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that released aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to fly home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to flight Hague was actually made by NASA principal astronaut Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba needed to balance flighting a NASA crew participant along with previous spaceflight adventure to command the trip, while ensuring NASA keeps an integrated team along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can easily run their crucial systems for continued, secure terminal procedures." While we have actually changed workers before for a variety of factors, scaling down team for this tour was actually an additional difficult decision to get used to given that the team has taught as a workers of four," claimed Acaba. "I have miraculous confidence in every our staff, that have been exceptional throughout training for the purpose. Zena and Stephanie will definitely remain to assist their crewmates before launch, and also they embody what it indicates to be a specialist astronaut.".The agency will share reassignment details for Cardman and Wilson when on call." I am profoundly pleased with our whole workers," claimed Cardman, "and I am certain Nick and Alex will definitely enter their tasks with distinction. All four people remain specialized to the effectiveness of this particular mission, as well as Stephanie and I eagerly anticipate piloting when the amount of time is right.".Wilson included, "I know Scar and Alex are going to perform a fantastic job with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as component of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 days visited room, this will definitely be Hague's 3rd launch and also second mission to the orbiting lab. Throughout his 1st launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failure, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months later, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and worked as a trip engineer aboard the spaceport station during Expeditions 59 and 60. Hague carried out three spacewalks to update space station energy systems and also put up a docking adapter for office space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Power, Hague finished a developmental turning at the Protection Division, and also acted as the Space Power's director of exam and analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to tasks at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Program until this tour project. Comply With @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will certainly be actually Gorbunov's first journey to space as well as the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he researched engineering along with credentials in spacecraft as well as upper phases from the Moscow Aeronautics Institute. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the army division along with a specialized in operating and fixing aircraft, helicopters, and plane motors. Before his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as a designer for Spacecraft Area Corp. Energia and also supported payload space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Exploration 72 workers aboard the station. They will certainly sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner carrying out scientific investigation and maintenance tasks right into the terminal's 24th year of continuous human existence.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station research and functions 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.