.Editor's keep in mind: This launch was upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to fix Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's function as an objective specialist. It was upgraded once again to improve a launch date.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, previously introduced as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague as well as Gorbunov will flight to the space station as commander and objective expert, respectively, as part of a two-crew element air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated workers supplement adheres to NASA's choice to come back the company's Boeing Team Trip Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with two unoccupied chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to flight home along with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to flight Hague was made through NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba must balance flighting a NASA staff member with previous spaceflight expertise to command the tour, while making certain NASA preserves an integrated workers along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who may operate their essential units for carried on, secure terminal functions." While our company've altered staff before for a wide array of main reasons, downsizing staff for this tour was another challenging choice to adjust to given that the team has actually taught as a workers of four," said Acaba. "I possess the utmost peace of mind in each our crew, that have actually been great throughout instruction for the objective. Zena as well as Stephanie will definitely remain to aid their crewmates in front of launch, as well as they show what it suggests to become an expert rocketeer.".The company will discuss reassignment details for Cardman and also Wilson when readily available." I am actually deeply pleased with our whole team," claimed Cardman, "as well as I am actually certain Scar as well as Alex will definitely enter their tasks along with excellence. All 4 of us stay dedicated to the success of this particular goal, and also Stephanie as well as I look forward to piloting when the moment is right.".Wilson included, "I know Chip and also Alex are going to do a terrific task along with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Exploration 72.".With 203 times visited space, this are going to be Hague's 3rd launch and also second goal to the orbiting laboratory. Throughout his first launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer breakdown, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. Five months later on, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as acted as an air travel developer aboard the spaceport station in the course of Trips 59 as well as 60. Hague administered 3 spacewalks to upgrade space station electrical power systems as well as set up a docking adapter for office space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Space Pressure, Hague accomplished a developmental rotation at the Protection Team, and also acted as the Room Force's director of test as well as analysis from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to roles at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner System up until this flight project. Observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's initial journey to room and also the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he analyzed design with certifications in spacecraft and also higher stages coming from the Moscow Air Travel Institute. Gorbunov graduated coming from the armed forces team along with a specialized in operating and fixing airplane, choppers, and plane motors. Just before his variety as an astronaut in 2018, he operated as an engineer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia and sustained cargo spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to enter of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the terminal. They are going to participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner performing clinical research as well as maintenance tasks right into the terminal's 24th year of ongoing human existence.Learn more concerning International Space Station investigation 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.