.Editor's details: This release was actually improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to correct Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as an objective professional. It was actually updated once more to deal with a launch date.NASA astronaut Scar Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the firm's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, recently revealed as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a future goal..Hague and Gorbunov will take flight to the space station as commander and objective expert, respectively, as part of a two-crew element air travel aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The improved workers complement observes NASA's selection to come back the company's Boeing Workers Tour Test uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 along with 2 uninhabited chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who released aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, will pilot home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to flight Hague was made through NASA main rocketeer Joe Acaba at the firm's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba had to stabilize taking flight a NASA crew participant with previous spaceflight expertise to influence the flight, while making sure NASA keeps an incorporated team along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can work their vital devices for carried on, secure station functions." While our company have actually changed workers prior to for an assortment of explanations, scaling down workers for this air travel was yet another difficult decision to adjust to considered that the staff has educated as a team of four," mentioned Acaba. "I have the utmost peace of mind with all our team, that have actually been outstanding throughout training for the mission. Zena and Stephanie will remain to support their crewmates in front of launch, and also they exemplify what it suggests to become a specialist astronaut.".The agency will certainly share reassignment information for Cardman and also Wilson when accessible." I am greatly happy with our whole team," pointed out Cardman, "and I am actually confident Chip and Alex will definitely step into their functions with excellence. All 4 people continue to be dedicated to the excellence of this objective, and Stephanie and I anticipate flighting when the moment is right.".Wilson added, "I know Scar as well as Alex are going to do a terrific task with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as component of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 times visited space, this will be actually Hague's third launch and also second mission to the orbiting lab. Throughout his 1st launch in Oct 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster breakdown, causing an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also functioned as a trip engineer aboard the spaceport station in the course of Explorations 59 as well as 60. Hague administered three spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station electrical power units and set up a docking adapter for industrial space probe. An active-duty colonel in the USA Room Power, Hague completed a developing rotation at the Self defense Team, and also worked as the Space Power's director of test and examination coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed responsibilities at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner Plan up until this air travel assignment. Comply With @astrohague on X and Instagram.This will definitely be Gorbunov's very first vacation to room as well as the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he analyzed engineering with certifications in space probe and upper stages coming from the Moscow Flying Principle. Gorbunov earned a degree coming from the armed forces department with a specialty in operating and also mending airplane, helicopters, and also airplane motors. Just before his choice as a cosmonaut in 2018, he operated as a developer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia as well as sustained payload space probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will definitely enter of the Trip 72 team aboard the terminal. They will definitely participate in Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner conducting scientific research as well as maintenance activities in to the terminal's 24th year of constant human presence.Find out more regarding International Spaceport station research study and also operations 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.