.Publisher's note: This launch was actually improved two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to improve Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's duty as a purpose expert. It was updated once again to improve a launch day.NASA astronaut Scar Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are going to release no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the company's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, previously revealed as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a future mission..Hague as well as Gorbunov are going to flight to the space station as leader as well as goal specialist, specifically, as component of a two-crew member tour aboard a SpaceX Monster.The updated team complement complies with NASA's selection to return the agency's Boeing Crew Tour Exam uncrewed and launch Crew-9 with 2 vacant seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who introduced aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to fly home along with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The selection to pilot Hague was actually made by NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Room Center in Houston. Acaba must balance flighting a NASA staff participant along with previous spaceflight experience to control the air travel, while making sure NASA preserves an incorporated workers with a Roscosmos astronaut who can easily operate their crucial units for carried on, secure station operations." While we've changed staff just before for an assortment of explanations, scaling down crew for this flight was yet another difficult decision to get used to considered that the staff has actually educated as a staff of 4," pointed out Acaba. "I have the utmost confidence in each our crew, that have been excellent throughout instruction for the objective. Zena as well as Stephanie will remain to assist their crewmates ahead of launch, and also they display what it suggests to be an expert rocketeer.".The firm will definitely discuss reassignment details for Cardman and also Wilson when readily available." I am actually profoundly proud of our whole workers," pointed out Cardman, "as well as I am actually confident Nick as well as Alex will certainly step into their jobs along with distinction. All four people stay dedicated to the success of this goal, as well as Stephanie and also I eagerly anticipate flying when the moment is right.".Wilson added, "I understand Chip and also Alex will definitely do a wonderful task along with their work aboard the International Space Station as portion of Expedition 72.".Along with 203 days visited space, this will definitely be Hague's 3rd launch as well as second goal to the orbiting laboratory. In the course of his 1st launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket enhancer breakdown, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also safe touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. Five months later on, Hague launched aboard Soyuz MS-12 and functioned as a flight engineer aboard the spaceport station throughout Trips 59 and also 60. Hague conducted 3 spacewalks to upgrade space station energy units as well as mount a docking adapter for business space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Room Pressure, Hague finished a developing turning at the Self defense Department, as well as acted as the Room Pressure's supervisor of examination as well as evaluation coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to roles at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner System up until this trip assignment. Observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.This are going to be actually Gorbunov's first travel to room and the station. Birthed in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he examined engineering with credentials in spacecraft and also higher phases coming from the Moscow Air Travel Institute. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the army department with a specialty in operating and restoring plane, helicopters, and aircraft motors. Before his collection as an astronaut in 2018, he operated as a designer for Spacecraft Area Corp. Energia as well as supported freight space probe launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov are going to enter of the Exploration 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will certainly join Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner administering medical research study as well as maintenance tasks into the terminal's 24th year of ongoing individual presence.Learn more concerning International Space Station investigation and also 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.