.Publisher's note: This launch was actually updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to improve Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as an objective specialist. It was upgraded once more to correct a launch date.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, formerly introduced as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a future purpose..Hague as well as Gorbunov will flight to the space station as leader and purpose specialist, specifically, as part of a two-crew member tour aboard a SpaceX Monster.The improved workers enhance adheres to NASA's selection to come back the organization's Boeing Staff Air travel Examination uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with pair of vacant chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will pilot home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to fly Hague was made through NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to balance piloting a NASA staff member along with previous spaceflight experience to control the air travel, while ensuring NASA preserves an incorporated team along with a Roscosmos astronaut that can easily work their crucial systems for proceeded, secure station procedures." While our company have actually altered team prior to for a range of reasons, downsizing crew for this air travel was another tough selection to get used to dued to the fact that the crew has actually taught as a workers of four," stated Acaba. "I have the utmost confidence in every our crew, who have been actually excellent throughout training for the purpose. Zena and also Stephanie will certainly continue to support their crewmates before launch, and they exhibit what it suggests to become an expert rocketeer.".The organization will share reassignment information for Cardman as well as Wilson when available." I am actually heavily pleased with our entire workers," claimed Cardman, "and also I am actually self-assured Scar and also Alex will certainly enter their functions with distinction. All four people continue to be devoted to the effectiveness of this objective, and Stephanie and also I look forward to piloting when the moment corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I know Nick as well as Alex are going to carry out a fantastic job with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Trip 72.".Along with 203 times logged in space, this are going to be actually Hague's third launch and also 2nd mission to the orbiting lab. During the course of his first launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failing, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months later on, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and worked as an air travel designer aboard the spaceport station during Expeditions 59 as well as 60. Hague carried out three spacewalks to improve space station electrical power bodies and also put in a docking adapter for business space probe. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Force, Hague completed a developmental rotation at the Defense Department, and also functioned as the Area Pressure's director of examination and evaluation from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed duties at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Plan until this air travel project. Adhere To @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's first vacation to space and also the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he analyzed design along with qualifications in space probe and higher stages from the Moscow Aeronautics Principle. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the army division along with a specialty in operating as well as fixing plane, helicopters, as well as plane engines. Just before his variety as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as a designer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia as well as sustained packages spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov are going to enter of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the terminal. They will sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner carrying out medical research study and maintenance tasks into the terminal's 24th year of ongoing human presence.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station research study and also functions 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.