.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually accessible for limited job interview possibilities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming purpose to the International Space Station in September.The digital meetings are going to flow survive NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and also the agency's internet site. Discover exactly how to flow NASA+ by means of a wide array of platforms consisting of social networks.Excited media must send an ask for zero behind 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio is going to spend around 6 months aboard the periodic lab before going back to Earth in the springtime of 2025.During the course of his time in track, Pettit will definitely conduct clinical inspections as well as innovation demos to assist ready the staff for future area objectives and supply perks to individuals on Earth. Pettit is going to take part in numerous of the manies practices happening throughout his objective, including researching just how spaceflight impacts blood clotting, continuing tests of innovation to generate individual stalk tissues precede, as well as providing his distinct digital photography skills to the long-running Crew Earth Observations study of exactly how Planet is changing eventually.NASA picked Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. An expert of three spaceflights, he has resulted in important advancements in innovation as well as demonstrations for human area expedition. He worked as a science policeman for Trip 6 in 2003, ran the robotic arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, and also served as a tour engineer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days in space and also performed two spacewalks amounting to 13 hrs and 17 mins.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds an undergraduate's level in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon State Educational Institution, Corvallis, and a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his occupation along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a workers expert at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For greater than two decades, humans have actually lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, advancing technology, and bring in research advances that are actually certainly not possible on Earth. The station is actually a vital testbed for NASA to know and get over the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to grow business opportunities in low The planet orbit. As office providers pay attention to providing individual room transportation companies as well as places as component of a durable low Planet orbit economy, NASA manages to concentrate more of its own sources on deep-seated room purposes to the Moon and also Mars.Receive breaking information, images and attributes coming from the spaceport station on the place weblog, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More about International Space Station investigation and also operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Joshua Finch/ Claire O'SheaHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ claire.a.o'shea@nasa.gov.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.