.Publisher's keep in mind: This release was improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to improve Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a mission expert. It was improved again to correct a launch day.NASA astronaut Scar Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, recently declared as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a future mission..Hague as well as Gorbunov will fly to the spaceport station as leader and also objective professional, respectively, as component of a two-crew member air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded crew supplement adheres to NASA's decision to come back the company's Boeing Staff Trip Examination uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 with pair of vacant chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who released aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, are going to take flight home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to flight Hague was created by NASA principal astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Acaba must stabilize piloting a NASA workers participant with previous spaceflight expertise to regulate the air travel, while making sure NASA preserves an integrated staff with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that may function their critical systems for continued, secure station functions." While we have actually modified staff just before for a selection of causes, downsizing workers for this flight was another tough decision to adjust to considered that the team has educated as a staff of four," mentioned Acaba. "I possess miraculous confidence with all our staff, who have been actually excellent throughout instruction for the purpose. Zena as well as Stephanie will definitely remain to assist their crewmates before launch, and they embody what it implies to become a professional astronaut.".The organization is going to share reassignment information for Cardman and Wilson when readily available." I am heavily proud of our whole team," said Cardman, "as well as I am actually self-assured Chip and also Alex will certainly enter their roles along with excellence. All 4 of us remain devoted to the success of this particular goal, and Stephanie and also I look forward to flying when the moment corrects.".Wilson added, "I know Chip and also Alex will definitely carry out a great task with their work aboard the International Space Station as portion of Trip 72.".With 203 days visited room, this are going to be actually Hague's third launch as well as 2nd goal to the orbiting research laboratory. In the course of his first launch in Oct 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster breakdown, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months later, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also functioned as an air travel engineer aboard the space station in the course of Expeditions 59 and also 60. Hague administered three spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station power devices and also put up a docking adapter for commercial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the USA Room Force, Hague accomplished a developing rotation at the Self defense Team, and worked as the Area Pressure's director of test and analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to tasks at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Program until this flight job. Adhere To @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will be actually Gorbunov's initial travel to room and also the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he studied engineering along with qualifications in space probe and top stages from the Moscow Aviation Principle. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the armed forces team along with a specialized in operating and restoring plane, helicopters, as well as aircraft engines. Prior to his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as an engineer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia and sustained freight space probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will become members of the Trip 72 crew aboard the station. They will certainly sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner carrying out clinical investigation as well as maintenance tasks in to the station's 24th year of ongoing human existence.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station analysis 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.