.Editor's details: This launch was actually improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to remedy Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as a goal professional. It was improved again to repair a launch time.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, formerly declared as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a potential objective..Hague and Gorbunov will flight to the spaceport station as commander as well as goal expert, respectively, as aspect of a two-crew element air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated workers complement follows NASA's choice to return the company's Boeing Staff Tour Test uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 with two vacant chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to take flight home along with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to pilot Hague was actually created through NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba needed to stabilize flighting a NASA team member with previous spaceflight experience to regulate the flight, while making certain NASA maintains an integrated staff along with a Roscosmos astronaut that may operate their critical units for continued, risk-free station operations." While we have actually transformed team prior to for an assortment of explanations, downsizing staff for this tour was actually yet another hard choice to get used to dued to the fact that the crew has actually trained as a team of four," stated Acaba. "I possess the utmost peace of mind in all our workers, that have actually been superb throughout instruction for the mission. Zena as well as Stephanie will continue to aid their crewmates in front of launch, as well as they exemplify what it means to become a professional rocketeer.".The agency will definitely discuss reassignment details for Cardman and Wilson when available." I am deeply proud of our whole workers," claimed Cardman, "and also I am actually positive Nick as well as Alex will certainly step into their roles along with superiority. All four people remain devoted to the results of this particular mission, and also Stephanie and I eagerly anticipate flighting when the amount of time is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I know Nick as well as Alex will carry out a fantastic task with their work aboard the International Space Station as portion of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 days logged in space, this are going to be actually Hague's third launch and second objective to the orbiting research laboratory. Throughout his 1st launch in October 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also risk-free landing in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also functioned as a flight designer aboard the space station in the course of Expeditions 59 and 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to upgrade space station power devices and put in a docking adapter for industrial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Room Power, Hague completed a developmental turning at the Self defense Team, and also acted as the Room Force's director of exam and examination coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to obligations at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner System until this tour task. Observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will definitely be actually Gorbunov's initial trip to space as well as the terminal. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk area, Russia, he researched design with certifications in space probe as well as upper phases from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Gorbunov graduated from the army division along with a specialty in operating as well as repairing airplane, choppers, and also aircraft engines. Prior to his selection as a cosmonaut in 2018, he worked as a designer for Rocket Room Corp. Energia and supported packages space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov are going to enter of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the station. They will certainly join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner performing scientific analysis as well as upkeep tasks right into the station's 24th year of constant individual visibility.Find out more about International Spaceport station investigation and functions 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.