.Publisher's note: This launch was actually upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to remedy Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a mission expert. It was actually updated again to deal with a launch date.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, earlier introduced as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague and Gorbunov will flight to the space station as commander and mission specialist, respectively, as part of a two-crew member air travel aboard a SpaceX Monster.The improved team complement observes NASA's decision to come back the company's Boeing Staff Trip Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with pair of vacant chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will take flight home along with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to fly Hague was created by NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba must balance piloting a NASA team member with previous spaceflight experience to command the air travel, while making certain NASA sustains an integrated crew along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can easily operate their crucial units for carried on, safe station procedures." While we have actually altered team just before for a range of factors, downsizing team for this air travel was one more tough selection to get used to dued to the fact that the crew has taught as a staff of four," pointed out Acaba. "I possess the utmost confidence in each our crew, who have actually been actually superb throughout training for the goal. Zena and also Stephanie are going to remain to aid their crewmates in front of launch, and also they embody what it implies to become a qualified astronaut.".The agency will certainly share reassignment details for Cardman and also Wilson when available." I am heavily proud of our whole workers," said Cardman, "as well as I am actually confident Nick and also Alex are going to enter their functions along with superiority. All 4 people stay dedicated to the results of this particular purpose, as well as Stephanie and also I anticipate piloting when the moment corrects.".Wilson included, "I know Scar and Alex will certainly perform an excellent work along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Exploration 72.".With 203 days visited space, this will certainly be Hague's 3rd launch and 2nd purpose to the orbiting lab. In the course of his first launch in October 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as secure landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months later on, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as acted as an air travel designer aboard the spaceport station in the course of Trips 59 and 60. Hague conducted three spacewalks to update space station electrical power systems as well as mount a docking adapter for business space probe. An active-duty colonel in the USA Space Force, Hague finished a developmental turning at the Protection Department, and served as the Area Pressure's director of test as well as analysis from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to duties at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner System up until this trip job. Follow @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This are going to be actually Gorbunov's very first excursion to room and the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he studied design along with certifications in space probe and also higher stages coming from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Gorbunov earned a degree from the armed forces team with a specialty in operating and restoring aircraft, helicopters, as well as aircraft engines. Just before his variety as an astronaut in 2018, he functioned as an engineer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia and also supported packages spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will become members of the Exploration 72 workers aboard the station. They will certainly join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner carrying out medical research and also routine maintenance activities in to the station's 24th year of continual human presence.Discover more about International Spaceport station analysis 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.