.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is actually accessible for restricted interview options starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to cover his upcoming goal to the International Space Station in September.The virtual job interviews will certainly flow survive NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, and also the company's internet site. Learn exactly how to stream NASA+ by means of a selection of systems including social networking sites.Fascinated media need to provide a request zero behind 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit is going to introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The triad will definitely spend roughly six months aboard the periodic lab just before coming back to Earth in the spring season of 2025.In the course of his attend orbit, Pettit will definitely perform scientific examinations as well as modern technology demos to help ready the staff for potential room missions and also supply benefits to individuals on Earth. Pettit will participate in numerous of the dozens experiments taking place in the course of his goal, consisting of researching just how spaceflight has an effect on blood clot, carrying on tests of technology to produce individual stalk tissues in space, as well as providing his one-of-a-kind digital photography skills to the long-running Team Earth Monitorings research study of just how Earth is altering over time.NASA picked Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A professional of three spaceflights, he has actually helped in important innovations in modern technology and demos for individual area exploration. He functioned as a scientific research officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, functioned the automated arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and acted as a trip engineer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times in space as well as administered 2 spacewalks amounting to thirteen hours as well as 17 moments.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Design coming from Oregon Condition College, Corvallis, and also a doctoral degree in Chemical Design from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Before his profession along with NASA, Pettit worked as a workers researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For greater than twenty years, human beings have actually stayed as well as operated consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing accurate knowledge, and bring in research study innovations that are actually not possible in the world. The station is an important testbed for NASA to understand and also get rid of the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to increase business possibilities in reduced Planet orbit. As office business concentrate on giving individual area transportation solutions as well as places as component of a sturdy low The planet track economic situation, NASA manages to focus even more of its information on deep-seated room missions to the Moon and also Mars.Receive breaking off updates, images as well as components coming from the spaceport station on the place blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More regarding International Spaceport station study and functions 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.