.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is actually accessible for limited job interview chances starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.The virtual interviews will stream reside on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and also the company's web site. Learn how to stream NASA+ by means of a range of platforms including social media sites.Appealed to media need to provide an ask for zero later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad is going to devote roughly six months aboard the orbital lab just before returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025.In the course of his time in orbit, Pettit will definitely perform clinical inspections and also modern technology demonstrations to help prepare the workers for potential room purposes and give perks to folks in the world. Pettit will definitely participate in several of the thousands of experiments occurring in the course of his mission, including researching just how spaceflight has an effect on blood clot, proceeding examinations of modern technology to produce individual stalk tissues precede, and also contributing his distinct photography capabilities to the long-running Staff Earth Observations study of just how Earth is changing with time.NASA selected Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A pro of 3 spaceflights, he has actually supported important developments in innovation and demonstrations for individual room exploration. He worked as a scientific research policeman for Exploration 6 in 2003, functioned the automated arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and also functioned as an air travel designer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days in space and carried out 2 spacewalks totaling 13 hrs as well as 17 moments.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Design from Oregon State Educational Institution, Corvallis, and a doctorate degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his profession with NASA, Pettit operated as a personnel expert at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than twenty years, human beings have stayed and operated consistently aboard the International Space Station, accelerating technology, as well as bring in analysis advances that are actually not feasible in the world. The place is a critical testbed for NASA to comprehend and also beat the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to increase business options in reduced The planet track. As commercial providers pay attention to supplying human room transit services and also places as component of a robust low Earth orbit economic situation, NASA has the ability to center additional of its own sources on deeper space purposes to the Moon as well as Mars.Obtain breaking updates, images and also components coming from the spaceport station on the place blog site, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More concerning International Space Station study and procedures 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.