.Editor's details: This launch was improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to remedy Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's task as an objective expert. It was upgraded once again to repair a launch date.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague and also Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will certainly launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, recently revealed as crewmates, are actually entitled for reassignment on a future objective..Hague and Gorbunov will pilot to the spaceport station as leader and also objective specialist, respectively, as aspect of a two-crew air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The upgraded crew enhance adheres to NASA's choice to return the company's Boeing Crew Trip Test uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with pair of deserted chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, that launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to flight home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to flight Hague was made through NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba needed to stabilize flighting a NASA team participant with previous spaceflight adventure to command the air travel, while making sure NASA maintains an integrated workers along with a Roscosmos astronaut who can run their critical units for continued, risk-free terminal operations." While our team've altered workers prior to for a variety of explanations, scaling down workers for this flight was actually an additional hard selection to adapt to considered that the staff has qualified as a crew of 4," claimed Acaba. "I possess the utmost self-confidence in every our workers, that have been great throughout instruction for the goal. Zena and Stephanie are going to continue to aid their crewmates before launch, as well as they exemplify what it suggests to be an expert astronaut.".The firm will definitely share reassignment particulars for Cardman as well as Wilson when available." I am actually heavily proud of our entire staff," claimed Cardman, "as well as I am actually confident Nick and also Alex will definitely step into their duties with superiority. All 4 of us continue to be dedicated to the results of this particular purpose, as well as Stephanie and also I await flighting when the time is right.".Wilson included, "I know Chip and also Alex will definitely do a wonderful work with their work aboard the International Space Station as aspect of Exploration 72.".With 203 times visited space, this are going to be actually Hague's third launch and also 2nd purpose to the orbiting research laboratory. During his first launch in Oct 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. 5 months later on, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also acted as a tour engineer aboard the spaceport station throughout Expeditions 59 and 60. Hague conducted 3 spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station electrical power systems and also set up a docking adapter for business spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the USA Space Pressure, Hague completed a developmental turning at the Defense Team, as well as functioned as the Space Pressure's director of exam and examination from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed roles at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Program until this tour job. Follow @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This are going to be Gorbunov's very first vacation to space as well as the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he studied engineering with certifications in space capsule and also higher phases coming from the Moscow Aeronautics Principle. Gorbunov finished from the military team along with a specialty in operating and repairing airplane, helicopters, and aircraft motors. Before his collection as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as an engineer for Spacecraft Space Corp. Energia as well as sustained payload space probe launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Trip 72 team aboard the station. They are going to participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner carrying out scientific research study and maintenance activities into the terminal's 24th year of ongoing human visibility.Find out more concerning International Space Station research as well as 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.