.Editor's note: This launch was actually updated two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to repair Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's function as a mission specialist. It was upgraded once more to fix a launch time.NASA astronaut Scar Hague as well as Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Space Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, earlier announced as crewmates, are actually entitled for reassignment on a future objective..Hague and also Gorbunov are going to take flight to the spaceport station as leader as well as purpose specialist, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew element flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.The updated workers complement observes NASA's choice to return the firm's Boeing Crew Tour Test uncrewed as well as launch Crew-9 along with 2 deserted seats. NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who released aboard the Starliner space probe in June, are going to take flight home along with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to fly Hague was made by NASA principal astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency's Johnson Area Center in Houston. Acaba must stabilize piloting a NASA workers participant along with previous spaceflight expertise to command the tour, while making sure NASA preserves an incorporated workers with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can work their important systems for proceeded, risk-free terminal operations." While we've modified workers prior to for a range of explanations, downsizing crew for this tour was actually one more challenging selection to adapt to given that the crew has educated as a workers of four," stated Acaba. "I possess the utmost assurance in every our crew, who have been actually exceptional throughout instruction for the goal. Zena and Stephanie will definitely continue to help their crewmates in front of launch, as well as they exhibit what it suggests to become a specialist rocketeer.".The company will definitely share reassignment particulars for Cardman and Wilson when offered." I am actually deeply proud of our whole staff," stated Cardman, "and also I am self-assured Scar and also Alex will enter their jobs with quality. All 4 of us remain committed to the excellence of this particular goal, and also Stephanie and also I await piloting when the time corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I know Nick and also Alex will definitely carry out a great work along with their work aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72.".With 203 times logged in area, this will definitely be Hague's third launch and also 2nd goal to the orbiting lab. During his initial launch in October 2018, Hague as well as his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft booster failing, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, as well as secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 space probe. Five months eventually, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 as well as worked as a trip developer aboard the spaceport station in the course of Expeditions 59 and also 60. Hague administered 3 spacewalks to update space station electrical power devices as well as put in a docking adapter for office space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the united state Area Power, Hague finished a developmental rotation at the Self defense Division, and functioned as the Room Pressure's supervisor of examination as well as examination coming from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague resumed duties at NASA, working with the Boeing Starliner Plan up until this trip project. Observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's very first journey to room and also the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk location, Russia, he analyzed design along with credentials in space probe as well as top stages coming from the Moscow Aeronautics Institute. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the armed forces department along with a specialty in operating as well as mending aircraft, choppers, and also aircraft motors. Just before his collection as an astronaut in 2018, he operated as a designer for Rocket Room Corp. Energia and also supported freight spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague as well as Gorbonov are going to become members of the Trip 72 staff aboard the station. They will certainly sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner administering scientific study and maintenance tasks in to the terminal's 24th year of continual individual presence.Find out more concerning International Spaceport station research study and 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.