.Editor's details: This release was updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to correct Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's function as a mission professional. It was improved again to fix a launch day.NASA astronaut Scar Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, previously introduced as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a potential goal..Hague and Gorbunov are going to flight to the space station as leader as well as objective specialist, respectively, as component of a two-crew member tour aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved crew complement follows NASA's selection to return the organization's Boeing Staff Flight Test uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 along with two abandoned seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that released aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will take flight home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to flight Hague was actually created by NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba had to stabilize flighting a NASA crew member with previous spaceflight adventure to influence the air travel, while ensuring NASA maintains an integrated team along with a Roscosmos astronaut who may run their critical systems for continued, safe terminal functions." While our experts have actually transformed staff before for a wide array of main reasons, downsizing team for this trip was an additional difficult selection to adjust to given that the team has actually educated as a workers of 4," mentioned Acaba. "I have miraculous peace of mind with all our workers, who have been actually great throughout instruction for the goal. Zena and also Stephanie will certainly continue to help their crewmates in advance of launch, and they show what it means to be a specialist rocketeer.".The company is going to discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when readily available." I am greatly happy with our whole workers," mentioned Cardman, "and I am actually self-assured Nick and also Alex will enter their functions with excellence. All 4 of us remain specialized to the effectiveness of this mission, as well as Stephanie as well as I await piloting when the time corrects.".Wilson included, "I understand Chip and Alex will definitely do a great project along with their job aboard the International Space Station as portion of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 times logged in room, this will certainly be Hague's third launch and 2nd objective to the orbiting lab. During his initial launch in Oct 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer failing, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later on, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also worked as a tour developer aboard the space station in the course of Explorations 59 and also 60. Hague conducted 3 spacewalks to improve space station power systems and also mount a docking adapter for business spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Room Pressure, Hague accomplished a developing turning at the Self defense Team, and acted as the Area Pressure's director of examination and evaluation coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed roles at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner Plan up until this trip task. Adhere To @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will definitely be Gorbunov's first journey to room and also the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he examined design along with credentials in space probe and also upper stages from the Moscow Air Travel Institute. Gorbunov finished coming from the army team along with a specialty in operating as well as restoring plane, helicopters, and plane engines. Before his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as a designer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia and supported cargo spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Trip 72 team aboard the station. They will definitely participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner conducting scientific research study and upkeep tasks right into the terminal's 24th year of ongoing human presence.Find out more about International Space Station study and 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.