.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is available for minimal job interview possibilities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming goal to the International Space Station in September.The virtual interviews will definitely flow live on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, as well as the organization's website. Know how to stream NASA+ via a variety of platforms featuring social networking sites.Appealed to media need to send a demand no beyond 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 launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The triad will certainly invest about 6 months aboard the periodic lab before coming back to The planet in the springtime of 2025.During his time in orbit, Pettit will perform clinical examinations and innovation demos to assist prepare the workers for potential area goals as well as give perks to people in the world. Pettit is going to take part in numerous of the dozens experiments happening during the course of his purpose, including studying exactly how spaceflight impacts blood clotting, continuing examinations of innovation to generate individual stalk tissues precede, and adding his special digital photography abilities to the long-running Workers The planet Observations research study of how Planet is transforming as time go on.NASA chose Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A pro of three spaceflights, he has added to integral advancements in technology and also demos for individual space expedition. He acted as a scientific research policeman for Expedition 6 in 2003, ran the robot upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and also functioned as a tour developer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times precede as well as conducted pair of spacewalks totting 13 hours as well as 17 minutes.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Design coming from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, and also a doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his career with NASA, Pettit operated as a personnel scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For greater than 20 years, humans have stayed and operated continually aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge, and also making investigation innovations that are actually certainly not achievable in the world. The station is a crucial testbed for NASA to understand and overcome the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to grow industrial opportunities in low The planet track. As business firms pay attention to supplying human area transport solutions and destinations as part of a strong low Planet track economy, NASA is able to focus additional of its own sources on deeper room missions to the Moon and also Mars.Acquire breaking headlines, images and also components from the space station on the place blog, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station investigation and also procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.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.