.Publisher's keep in mind: This launch was upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to improve Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as a goal specialist. It was upgraded once more to remedy a launch time.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will 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, recently announced as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a future goal..Hague and Gorbunov are going to take flight to the spaceport station as leader and goal professional, respectively, as component of a two-crew flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded workers complement observes NASA's decision to return the company's Boeing Team Trip Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with two uninhabited chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to flight home along with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to fly Hague was made through NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba had to harmonize flying a NASA crew participant along with previous spaceflight knowledge to control the air travel, while ensuring NASA keeps an integrated crew with a Roscosmos astronaut who may run their essential systems for proceeded, safe terminal operations." While our company have actually transformed workers prior to for a selection of explanations, scaling down crew for this trip was yet another challenging selection to adjust to considered that the staff has trained as a team of 4," claimed Acaba. "I possess miraculous self-confidence in every our staff, that have been great throughout instruction for the goal. Zena and also Stephanie are going to continue to aid their crewmates before launch, and they display what it implies to become a specialist astronaut.".The agency will definitely share reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when offered." I am heavily pleased with our entire workers," said Cardman, "and also I am actually confident Nick as well as Alex will certainly step into their jobs with superiority. All 4 people stay dedicated to the excellence of the mission, and Stephanie and also I await piloting when the time is right.".Wilson included, "I know Scar and also Alex will definitely perform a great task with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as part of Trip 72.".With 203 times visited room, this are going to be actually Hague's third launch and 2nd objective to the orbiting research laboratory. In the course of his initial launch in October 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer breakdown, 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 introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also acted as a flight engineer aboard the space station in the course of Explorations 59 and 60. Hague carried out three spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station energy units and also put in a docking adapter for business space probe. An active-duty colonel in the united state Room Pressure, Hague completed a developmental rotation at the Defense Department, and functioned as the Room Pressure's director of examination and also evaluation from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to duties at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Plan till this air travel assignment. Comply With @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will certainly be actually Gorbunov's 1st journey to space and also the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he examined design with qualifications in spacecraft and also higher stages coming from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Gorbunov finished from the armed forces department along with a specialized in operating as well as fixing airplane, helicopters, and also aircraft engines. Prior to his assortment as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as a designer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia and also sustained cargo space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Trip 72 crew aboard the station. They will certainly participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner carrying out scientific study and servicing activities right into the station's 24th year of continuous individual existence.Learn more concerning International Space Station analysis as well as operations 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.