.Editor's note: This release was upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to repair Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's part as an objective professional. It was actually updated once again to repair a launch time.NASA astronaut Scar Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, previously revealed as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague as well as Gorbunov will take flight to the space station as leader and also purpose specialist, specifically, as part of a two-crew member air travel aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded staff enhance complies with NASA's selection to return the company's Boeing Team Flight Examination uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with two deserted chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to take flight home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to fly Hague was created through NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to harmonize flying a NASA workers member with previous spaceflight expertise to command the flight, while guaranteeing NASA sustains an incorporated team along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who may work their essential devices for continued, secure station operations." While our experts've transformed crew prior to for a variety of factors, scaling down crew for this flight was actually an additional challenging choice to get used to given that the crew has trained as a team of four," said Acaba. "I possess the utmost self-confidence in all our staff, that have actually been actually superb throughout training for the mission. Zena and also Stephanie are going to remain to aid their crewmates in advance of launch, and they display what it suggests to become an expert rocketeer.".The organization will certainly share reassignment particulars for Cardman as well as Wilson when offered." I am heavily happy with our whole entire workers," stated Cardman, "as well as I am positive Nick and Alex will enter their roles with excellence. All four people stay dedicated to the excellence of the purpose, and Stephanie and I await taking flight when the moment is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I understand Scar and Alex will certainly do a wonderful task with their job aboard the International Space Station as portion of Expedition 72.".With 203 times logged in area, this will be Hague's third launch and 2nd mission to the orbiting laboratory. Throughout his initial launch in October 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failing, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also secure landing in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. Five months later on, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as served as an air travel developer aboard the spaceport station during Trips 59 and also 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to update space station energy devices and also mount a docking adapter for office spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Area Pressure, Hague accomplished a developmental turning at the Protection Team, and acted as the Space Power's director of exam as well as analysis from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed tasks at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner Plan till this flight task. Comply With @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will definitely be actually Gorbunov's 1st travel to room and also the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he analyzed engineering along with certifications in space capsule and also top phases coming from the Moscow Air Travel Institute. Gorbunov finished from the armed forces division along with a specialty in operating and also mending aircraft, helicopters, and airplane engines. Prior to his assortment as an astronaut in 2018, he operated as a designer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia as well as supported packages space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will enter of the Exploration 72 workers aboard the terminal. They are going to participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner administering medical research and also servicing activities into the station's 24th year of constant human presence.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station investigation and also 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.