.Publisher's keep in mind: This launch was actually improved two times on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to repair Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's role as a purpose professional. It was actually improved once more to correct a launch day.NASA astronaut Scar Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 purpose to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, previously revealed as crewmates, are qualified for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague and Gorbunov are going to pilot to the space station as leader as well as mission specialist, specifically, as part of a two-crew member trip aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded staff supplement complies with NASA's selection to come back the firm's Boeing Workers Trip Test uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with 2 empty seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to fly home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to take flight Hague was actually made through NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to harmonize flying a NASA workers participant with previous spaceflight experience to control the air travel, while ensuring NASA preserves an integrated workers along with a Roscosmos astronaut who can easily operate their essential systems for proceeded, safe station operations." While our company've transformed workers just before for a range of factors, downsizing workers for this trip was actually yet another tough selection to adapt to considered that the team has actually trained as a staff of 4," mentioned Acaba. "I have miraculous self-confidence in all our workers, who have been actually excellent throughout training for the objective. Zena as well as Stephanie will definitely continue to assist their crewmates in advance of launch, and also they embody what it indicates to become a professional astronaut.".The firm will certainly share reassignment details for Cardman and Wilson when available." I am profoundly happy with our entire team," said Cardman, "and I am confident Nick and Alex will definitely enter their jobs with quality. All four of us remain dedicated to the success of this goal, and also Stephanie and also I eagerly anticipate taking flight when the moment is right.".Wilson included, "I recognize Scar and also Alex are going to do a great job along with their job aboard the International Space Station as portion of Exploration 72.".With 203 days visited room, this are going to be Hague's 3rd launch and also 2nd goal to the orbiting research laboratory. During the course of his initial launch in Oct 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failing, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and safe landing in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later on, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 and acted as a flight engineer aboard the space station in the course of Trips 59 and 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station power systems and install a docking adapter for industrial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Area Power, Hague accomplished a developing turning at the Protection Team, as well as functioned as the Space Power's supervisor of examination and assessment from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to tasks at NASA, servicing the Boeing Starliner Program until this tour assignment. Follow @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This are going to be Gorbunov's first trip to area and also the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he researched engineering with credentials in spacecraft as well as top phases from the Moscow Flying Institute. Gorbunov earned a degree from the armed forces division with a specialty in operating and restoring airplane, choppers, as well as airplane engines. Just before his choice as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as an engineer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia and also assisted freight spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to become members of the Trip 72 crew aboard the station. They will certainly join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner conducting clinical research study and routine maintenance tasks in to the terminal's 24th year of constant human visibility.Find out more about International Space Station research as well as procedures 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.