.Publisher's details: This release was upgraded two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to repair Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a goal specialist. It was improved once again to remedy a launch date.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, earlier announced as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague as well as Gorbunov will take flight to the space station as leader and goal professional, respectively, as portion of a two-crew flight aboard a SpaceX Monster.The improved team supplement complies with NASA's selection to return the firm's Boeing Staff Flight Examination uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 with pair of uninhabited seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will fly home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to flight Hague was actually made by NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Acaba needed to balance flighting a NASA crew participant along with previous spaceflight experience to command the flight, while guaranteeing NASA keeps an integrated staff with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who may work their critical devices for continued, safe station functions." While our experts have actually modified crew just before for a wide array of causes, downsizing staff for this trip was an additional hard selection to get used to dued to the fact that the staff has actually qualified as a team of 4," stated Acaba. "I have miraculous peace of mind in all our workers, who have been great throughout training for the purpose. Zena and also Stephanie will certainly remain to aid their crewmates in advance of launch, and also they embody what it implies to be a professional rocketeer.".The firm will certainly share reassignment particulars for Cardman as well as Wilson when on call." I am actually deeply proud of our whole staff," said Cardman, "as well as I am actually positive Scar and also Alex will enter their roles with superiority. All four people remain specialized to the results of this particular goal, and also Stephanie and also I eagerly anticipate flighting when the amount of time corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I understand Chip as well as Alex will certainly carry out a terrific work with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as part of Exploration 72.".With 203 days visited room, this will be actually Hague's 3rd launch and also 2nd mission to the orbiting lab. In the course of his initial launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and safe landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months later, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also functioned as an air travel developer aboard the spaceport station during the course of Expeditions 59 and 60. Hague conducted three spacewalks to improve spaceport station power units and also mount a docking adapter for office spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Room Pressure, Hague accomplished a developmental rotation at the Protection Division, as well as worked as the Space Power's director of examination as well as analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to roles at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner Course until this flight project. Adhere To @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will be Gorbunov's 1st trip to space as well as the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he examined engineering along with credentials in space probe and upper stages from the Moscow Aeronautics Institute. Gorbunov earned a degree coming from the army team along with a specialized in operating and mending airplane, choppers, as well as plane motors. Before his selection as an astronaut in 2018, he functioned as an engineer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia as well as sustained packages space probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will certainly join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner performing scientific investigation and also servicing activities right into the terminal's 24th year of constant individual existence.Discover more about International Space Station study and also 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.