.Editor's note: This release was actually updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to fix Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as an objective professional. It was actually upgraded again to fix a launch date.NASA astronaut Scar Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, earlier revealed as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a future purpose..Hague and also Gorbunov will pilot to the spaceport station as leader and also objective expert, respectively, as aspect of a two-crew member trip aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated staff enhance follows NASA's decision to come back the company's Boeing Team Trip Exam uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 with 2 uninhabited seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, who introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to take flight home along with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to fly Hague was created through NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to harmonize flying a NASA crew participant along with previous spaceflight knowledge to command the flight, while ensuring NASA keeps an integrated crew along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can easily operate their vital devices for proceeded, risk-free terminal functions." While our company have actually altered crew prior to for a wide array of reasons, scaling down workers for this air travel was another hard selection to adjust to considered that the staff has qualified as a team of four," claimed Acaba. "I possess miraculous peace of mind in each our staff, that have actually been great throughout instruction for the mission. Zena and Stephanie will remain to support their crewmates ahead of launch, as well as they embody what it suggests to become a professional astronaut.".The agency is going to share reassignment details for Cardman as well as Wilson when readily available." I am actually profoundly happy with our whole entire crew," said Cardman, "and also I am actually confident Scar and Alex are going to step into their functions with excellence. All 4 of us continue to be devoted to the excellence of this goal, and also Stephanie and I anticipate flying when the time is right.".Wilson included, "I recognize Nick and also Alex will carry out an excellent job along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as aspect of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 times logged in area, this will be actually Hague's 3rd launch as well as 2nd purpose to the orbiting laboratory. During his 1st launch in Oct 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failing, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and safe landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and functioned as a tour designer aboard the space station during the course of Expeditions 59 and 60. Hague conducted 3 spacewalks to upgrade space station power systems and set up a docking adapter for business space probe. An active-duty colonel in the USA Room Power, Hague completed a developmental rotation at the Defense Team, as well as functioned as the Area Force's supervisor of examination as well as examination from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to responsibilities at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Course till this trip project. Comply With @astrohague on X and Instagram.This are going to be actually Gorbunov's first journey to room as well as the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he researched design along with qualifications in spacecraft and upper stages coming from the Moscow Aviation Principle. Gorbunov got a degree from the armed forces department along with a specialized in operating and also fixing aircraft, choppers, and also aircraft engines. Prior to his selection as an astronaut in 2018, he functioned as a developer for Rocket Room Corp. Energia as well as supported payload space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Expedition 72 crew aboard the station. They will certainly join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner administering clinical study as well as servicing tasks in to the terminal's 24th year of continual human presence.Discover more about International Space Station research and operations 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.