.Editor's details: This release was upgraded twice on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to repair Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's part as a purpose expert. It was updated again to remedy a launch day.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman as well as Stephanie Wilson, previously introduced as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a potential objective..Hague and Gorbunov will fly to the spaceport station as commander and also goal professional, respectively, as component of a two-crew member flight aboard a SpaceX Monster.The updated team complement observes NASA's decision to come back the agency's Boeing Crew Tour Exam uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with 2 unoccupied seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to flight home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to flight Hague was actually made through NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Room Facility in Houston. Acaba had to harmonize piloting a NASA staff member with previous spaceflight expertise to control the tour, while ensuring NASA sustains an incorporated staff with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can work their essential bodies for carried on, safe terminal operations." While we have actually modified workers before for a variety of causes, scaling down crew for this air travel was actually yet another hard decision to get used to considered that the crew has actually taught as a workers of 4," claimed Acaba. "I have miraculous peace of mind in each our workers, that have been exceptional throughout instruction for the mission. Zena and Stephanie will continue to help their crewmates in front of launch, as well as they show what it means to be a professional rocketeer.".The company will share reassignment particulars for Cardman and also Wilson when offered." I am actually profoundly proud of our whole workers," stated Cardman, "as well as I am actually self-assured Scar and Alex are going to step into their parts along with distinction. All four of us continue to be dedicated to the effectiveness of this particular purpose, and Stephanie as well as I eagerly anticipate flying when the time is right.".Wilson added, "I recognize Chip and also Alex will definitely carry out a fantastic job with their job aboard the International Space Station as component of Exploration 72.".With 203 times logged in room, this will definitely be Hague's 3rd launch and second purpose to the orbiting research laboratory. Throughout his very first launch in October 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft 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 eventually, Hague introduced aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as served as a trip engineer aboard the spaceport station during Explorations 59 and also 60. Hague conducted three spacewalks to update space station electrical power bodies and put in a docking adapter for industrial space probe. An active-duty colonel in the USA Space Power, Hague finished a developmental rotation at the Defense Division, and acted as the Space Force's supervisor of exam and also analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed obligations at NASA, working on the Boeing Starliner System up until this air travel assignment. Observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This are going to be Gorbunov's first journey to space and the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he studied engineering along with certifications in spacecraft and also upper phases from the Moscow Aeronautics Principle. Gorbunov earned a degree coming from the military division along with a specialty in operating and also repairing plane, helicopters, as well as airplane engines. Just before his collection as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as a designer for Rocket Area Corp. Energia and supported payload space capsule launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Expedition 72 team aboard the station. They are going to join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner conducting clinical research study and routine maintenance activities right into the station's 24th year of continuous human existence.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station research as well as functions 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.