.Publisher's note: This launch was upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to remedy Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as a goal expert. It was upgraded again to remedy a launch time.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, previously announced as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a future objective..Hague as well as Gorbunov will take flight to the space station as commander and objective specialist, respectively, as part of a two-crew member air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved crew complement adheres to NASA's decision to return the firm's Boeing Crew Flight Examination uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with 2 abandoned chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who released aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, are going to flight home along with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to fly Hague was actually made through NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba needed to harmonize piloting a NASA team member with previous spaceflight expertise to control the flight, while guaranteeing NASA keeps an integrated team with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can run their critical bodies for proceeded, risk-free station functions." While our company have actually changed crew before for a wide array of factors, downsizing staff for this tour was actually an additional tough decision to get used to considered that the team has educated as a workers of 4," pointed out Acaba. "I possess the utmost assurance in each our team, who have actually been superb throughout training for the objective. Zena as well as Stephanie will continue to aid their crewmates in advance of launch, as well as they display what it suggests to be a professional astronaut.".The company will discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when readily available." I am actually heavily pleased with our entire workers," mentioned Cardman, "and also I am actually confident Scar as well as Alex are going to step into their tasks with excellence. All four of us continue to be devoted to the effectiveness of this particular purpose, as well as Stephanie and also I anticipate taking flight when the time corrects.".Wilson included, "I understand Nick and also Alex are going to perform an excellent task with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as component of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 days logged in room, this are going to be actually Hague's 3rd launch and also 2nd mission to the orbiting research laboratory. In the course of his initial launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and secure landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. 5 months later on, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and acted as an air travel developer aboard the spaceport station in the course of Trips 59 as well as 60. Hague performed three spacewalks to improve spaceport station power bodies and also mount a docking adapter for commercial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Space Power, Hague finished a developing turning at the Protection Team, and also acted as the Area Power's director of test and also assessment coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to roles at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Course till this air travel job. Follow @astrohague on X and Instagram.This are going to be Gorbunov's 1st travel to space and also the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he studied engineering with credentials in space capsule and also upper phases coming from the Moscow Flying Institute. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the armed forces division with a specialty in operating and repairing airplane, helicopters, and plane engines. Prior to his collection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as a developer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia as well as sustained payload space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Trip 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will definitely participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner conducting medical analysis as well as routine maintenance tasks in to the terminal's 24th year of continuous individual presence.Find out more about International Space Station study and also 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.