.Publisher's note: This release was upgraded two times on Aug. 30, 2024. To begin with, to remedy Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as an objective professional. It was improved once again to repair a launch time.NASA astronaut Scar Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Spaceport Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, earlier revealed as crewmates, are entitled for reassignment on a potential objective..Hague as well as Gorbunov will fly to the spaceport station as commander and also goal professional, specifically, as part of a two-crew member flight aboard a SpaceX Monster.The upgraded workers supplement follows NASA's selection to return the company's Boeing Team Trip Examination uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 along with pair of vacant chairs. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who launched aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to flight home with Hague and Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to pilot Hague was created by NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the organization's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba needed to stabilize piloting a NASA workers member with previous spaceflight expertise to control the tour, while making sure NASA preserves an incorporated team with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can run their essential systems for carried on, safe terminal operations." While our team have actually modified staff just before for a variety of causes, scaling down staff for this tour was yet another hard selection to get used to considered that the crew has actually qualified as a crew of 4," stated Acaba. "I have miraculous peace of mind in each our team, who have actually been exceptional throughout training for the goal. Zena and also Stephanie will certainly remain to support their crewmates before launch, as well as they show what it indicates to be a qualified astronaut.".The firm will certainly share reassignment details for Cardman as well as Wilson when available." I am actually profoundly proud of our entire team," mentioned Cardman, "and also I am certain Nick as well as Alex will enter their functions with distinction. All 4 of us remain specialized to the excellence of this particular goal, and also Stephanie and I look forward to flying when the moment corrects.".Wilson added, "I recognize Chip and also Alex will do a terrific work with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Exploration 72.".Along with 203 days visited space, this will certainly be Hague's 3rd launch as well as second purpose to the orbiting research laboratory. In the course of his initial launch in Oct 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer breakdown, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also safe landing in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. Five months later, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as functioned as a tour designer aboard the spaceport station throughout Explorations 59 as well as 60. Hague carried out three spacewalks to improve spaceport station energy bodies as well as put up a docking adapter for office space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the USA Room Pressure, Hague completed a developmental turning at the Defense Department, and also acted as the Space Force's supervisor of examination as well as analysis coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed duties at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Program until this tour job. Comply With @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This are going to be Gorbunov's first excursion to space and also the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he analyzed engineering with credentials in spacecraft and also upper stages from the Moscow Aviation Principle. Gorbunov finished from the military department with a specialized in operating as well as repairing aircraft, helicopters, and also airplane motors. Just before his variety as an astronaut in 2018, he operated as an engineer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia and supported cargo spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Expedition 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will certainly sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner performing medical analysis and routine maintenance tasks right into the terminal's 24th year of ongoing human visibility.Find out more about International Spaceport station investigation as well as 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.