.Editor's details: This release was improved twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to deal with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's part as an objective specialist. It was improved once again to improve a launch day.NASA astronaut Scar Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, previously declared as crewmates, are actually entitled for reassignment on a potential purpose..Hague as well as Gorbunov are going to pilot to the spaceport station as commander as well as objective professional, respectively, as part of a two-crew element flight aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded workers supplement follows NASA's decision to return the firm's Boeing Crew Tour Exam uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with two unoccupied chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner spacecraft in June, will fly home along with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to pilot Hague was actually created by NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Space Facility in Houston. Acaba had to harmonize flying a NASA team member with previous spaceflight adventure to influence the trip, while making sure NASA preserves an integrated crew along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that may work their crucial units for continued, secure terminal procedures." While our company've changed team prior to for a variety of explanations, scaling down crew for this flight was actually an additional hard choice to get used to considered that the crew has educated as a workers of four," pointed out Acaba. "I have miraculous self-confidence with all our staff, who have actually been excellent throughout instruction for the purpose. Zena as well as Stephanie will certainly remain to assist their crewmates ahead of launch, and also they exemplify what it indicates to become an expert rocketeer.".The agency will certainly discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman as well as Wilson when offered." I am heavily proud of our whole workers," claimed Cardman, "and also I am certain Scar and Alex will enter their jobs along with quality. All 4 of us continue to be specialized to the success of this particular objective, and Stephanie and also I eagerly anticipate flying when the time is right.".Wilson incorporated, "I recognize Scar and Alex will perform a fantastic task along with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Trip 72.".With 203 days visited space, this will definitely be Hague's 3rd launch as well as second objective to the orbiting research laboratory. In the course of his 1st launch in Oct 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and risk-free touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months eventually, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and also functioned as an air travel designer aboard the space station during Trips 59 and 60. Hague conducted 3 spacewalks to upgrade spaceport station energy bodies as well as put in a docking adapter for commercial spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Power, Hague accomplished a developing rotation at the Defense Team, and functioned as the Room Force's director of exam and evaluation from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed tasks at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner System up until this air travel project. Follow @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will be actually Gorbunov's first travel to area and also the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he studied engineering along with qualifications in spacecraft and also upper phases from the Moscow Aviation Principle. Gorbunov finished from the military department along with a specialized in operating and also repairing airplane, choppers, as well as aircraft engines. Just before his assortment as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as an engineer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia and also supported packages space probe launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the station. They will certainly join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner performing clinical research study as well as servicing activities in to the station's 24th year of continual human presence.Discover more about International Space Station research 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.