.Editor's keep in mind: This release was upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to remedy Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as an objective specialist. It was upgraded once more to correct a launch date.NASA astronaut Scar Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 objective to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, recently introduced as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a future goal..Hague and also Gorbunov will take flight to the space station as leader and also goal specialist, respectively, as portion of a two-crew trip aboard a SpaceX Monster.The updated team enhance follows NASA's choice to come back the company's Boeing Team Flight Exam uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with two vacant seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will take flight home with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to fly Hague was created by NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to stabilize flighting a NASA crew member with previous spaceflight knowledge to control the trip, while ensuring NASA preserves an incorporated team with a Roscosmos astronaut who can work their important units for proceeded, risk-free terminal functions." While we've changed staff just before for a selection of reasons, scaling down team for this tour was actually one more difficult decision to adjust to dued to the fact that the staff has actually taught as a staff of 4," mentioned Acaba. "I possess miraculous self-confidence in every our workers, that have actually been actually outstanding throughout instruction for the objective. Zena and also Stephanie will definitely remain to assist their crewmates in advance of launch, and also they display what it suggests to be a qualified astronaut.".The agency will certainly discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when readily available." I am actually deeply happy with our whole entire workers," said Cardman, "as well as I am self-assured Chip as well as Alex will step into their duties with distinction. All 4 of us remain committed to the excellence of this particular purpose, and also Stephanie as well as I anticipate piloting when the time is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I recognize Chip and also Alex are going to carry out a wonderful project with their job aboard the International Space Station as component of Trip 72.".Along with 203 times visited area, this will definitely be Hague's 3rd launch and second mission to the orbiting laboratory. During his 1st launch in Oct 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and risk-free touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and served as an air travel designer aboard the space station during the course of Expeditions 59 as well as 60. Hague performed 3 spacewalks to update spaceport station energy systems and put in a docking adapter for industrial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Area Power, Hague finished a developmental rotation at the Self defense Division, as well as served as the Room Force's director of test and assessment coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed responsibilities at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner Course until this air travel job. Observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will definitely be actually Gorbunov's initial vacation to room as well as the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he studied engineering with certifications in spacecraft and higher phases coming from the Moscow Air Travel Institute. Gorbunov graduated from the armed forces division with a specialty in operating and restoring plane, choppers, as well as airplane engines. Just before his option as an astronaut in 2018, he functioned as a designer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia and also supported cargo space probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Expedition 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will certainly sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner performing scientific investigation and routine maintenance tasks in to the station's 24th year of constant individual presence.Find out more about International Spaceport station research as well as functions 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.