.Editor's note: This release was actually updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to fix Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's job as a mission specialist. It was actually improved again to remedy a launch time.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to introduce no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the organization's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, previously introduced as crewmates, are actually qualified for reassignment on a future objective..Hague as well as Gorbunov will pilot to the space station as commander and also goal specialist, respectively, as component of a two-crew flight aboard a SpaceX Monster.The improved staff enhance follows NASA's selection to come back the agency's Boeing Workers Flight Examination uncrewed and also launch Crew-9 with two empty chairs. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore as well as Suni Williams, that introduced aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to flight home along with Hague as well as Gorbunov in February 2025.The decision to flight Hague was created by NASA principal rocketeer Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Acaba needed to stabilize taking flight a NASA crew participant with previous spaceflight knowledge to command the flight, while guaranteeing NASA preserves an incorporated workers with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can run their vital systems for proceeded, risk-free terminal functions." While our experts have actually altered crew before for a range of factors, downsizing workers for this tour was actually one more tough decision to get used to dued to the fact that the crew has taught as a workers of 4," stated Acaba. "I possess miraculous confidence in all our crew, who have been actually outstanding throughout instruction for the goal. Zena as well as Stephanie will remain to support their crewmates ahead of launch, and also they show what it suggests to become a specialist rocketeer.".The company is going to discuss reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when readily available." I am actually heavily pleased with our entire team," said Cardman, "as well as I am self-assured Chip and also Alex will definitely enter their jobs with superiority. All 4 people continue to be committed to the effectiveness of this particular objective, and also Stephanie and also I look forward to taking flight when the moment corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I know Nick and also Alex will definitely carry out a terrific work along with their job aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 times logged in room, this will definitely be actually Hague's third launch as well as 2nd purpose to the orbiting research laboratory. During the course of his initial launch in Oct 2018, Hague and also his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also risk-free touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space capsule. Five months later on, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as functioned as a tour designer aboard the spaceport station throughout Trips 59 and 60. Hague carried out 3 spacewalks to update spaceport station power bodies and install a docking adapter for business spacecraft. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Room Power, Hague accomplished a developmental turning at the Protection Department, as well as acted as the Area Power's supervisor of exam and examination coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed responsibilities at NASA, dealing with the Boeing Starliner Plan until this tour assignment. Follow @astrohague on X and Instagram.This are going to be Gorbunov's initial travel to area and also the terminal. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he researched design along with credentials in space probe and also upper phases coming from the Moscow Air Travel Institute. Gorbunov finished from the military division with a specialty in operating as well as repairing plane, choppers, as well as airplane engines. Just before his variety as an astronaut in 2018, he worked as a designer for Rocket Space Corp. Energia and also sustained payload space capsule launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Exploration 72 team aboard the terminal. They will sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA rocketeer Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner conducting medical investigation and routine maintenance tasks right into the terminal's 24th year of ongoing human visibility.Discover more concerning International Spaceport 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.