.Publisher's keep in mind: This launch was upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to remedy Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as a goal specialist. It was updated once more to remedy a launch date.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, recently introduced as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a future mission..Hague as well as Gorbunov are going to pilot to the spaceport station as leader and also goal professional, specifically, as component of a two-crew trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated team enhance adheres to NASA's selection to return the agency's Boeing Workers Tour Exam uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 with 2 abandoned chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, will pilot home along with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to pilot Hague was created by NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba must balance flighting a NASA staff participant along with previous spaceflight adventure to control the trip, while making certain NASA maintains an integrated workers along with a Roscosmos astronaut that can function their crucial bodies for continued, safe station functions." While we have actually transformed team prior to for an assortment of reasons, downsizing crew for this trip was another hard decision to adjust to given that the staff has actually qualified as a staff of 4," pointed out Acaba. "I possess the utmost peace of mind in all our team, who have been exceptional throughout training for the goal. Zena and also Stephanie will certainly remain to aid their crewmates ahead of launch, and they exhibit what it implies to become a qualified astronaut.".The agency will share reassignment particulars for Cardman as well as Wilson when on call." I am profoundly proud of our whole team," pointed out Cardman, "and I am positive Nick and Alex are going to step into their parts along with superiority. All four of us stay devoted to the excellence of this goal, and Stephanie and also I await flighting when the amount of time is right.".Wilson included, "I recognize Nick as well as Alex will certainly perform a fantastic job along with their work aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 times visited area, this will be actually Hague's third launch and second objective to the orbiting research laboratory. In the course of his very first launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failure, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also acted as a flight designer aboard the spaceport station during Expeditions 59 and also 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to upgrade space station energy units and mount a docking adapter for office spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Area Power, Hague completed a developmental rotation at the Self defense Team, and acted as the Space Power's director of test and evaluation coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed obligations at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner Course up until this flight project. Comply With @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will certainly be actually Gorbunov's very first excursion to area and also the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he studied design with certifications in space capsule and top phases coming from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Gorbunov finished coming from the army department along with a specialized in operating as well as mending airplane, helicopters, and aircraft engines. Just before his collection as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as an engineer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia and also assisted freight space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Expedition 72 crew aboard the terminal. They are going to participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner administering medical study and upkeep activities in to the terminal's 24th year of continuous individual existence.Find out more about International Spaceport station investigation as well as 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.