.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is readily available for restricted interview options starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming goal to the International Space Station in September.The virtual job interviews are going to flow reside on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, as well as the agency's site. Know how to flow NASA+ with an assortment of systems including social media sites.Fascinated media should send a request absolutely no behind 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad will devote roughly six months aboard the orbital lab before coming back to Planet in the spring season of 2025.In the course of his attend orbit, Pettit will definitely perform scientific investigations and also modern technology exhibitions to assist ready the crew for future area objectives and also offer advantages to folks in the world. Pettit is going to join many of the hundreds of practices happening in the course of his mission, consisting of studying exactly how spaceflight affects blood clotting, proceeding examinations of innovation to generate human stem tissues in space, as well as providing his special photography abilities to the long-running Crew The planet Reviews research of exactly how The planet is modifying gradually.NASA chose Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A professional of 3 spaceflights, he has actually added to essential advancements in innovation and demonstrations for human space expedition. He functioned as a scientific research police officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, operated the automated arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, as well as acted as a tour developer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days in space as well as conducted pair of spacewalks completing 13 hours and 17 minutes.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps a bachelor's degree in Chemical Design coming from Oregon Condition College, Corvallis, and a doctoral level in Chemical Design from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his occupation with NASA, Pettit functioned as a team researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than two decades, humans have actually resided and operated regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating scientific knowledge, as well as bring in investigation developments that are not achievable in the world. The station is actually an important testbed for NASA to recognize and overcome the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to increase office possibilities in low Planet orbit. As business firms pay attention to giving individual room transport services as well as places as portion of a robust reduced Earth track economic climate, NASA has the capacity to center even more of its resources on deep space objectives to the Moon as well as Mars.Get breaking headlines, images and also features coming from the spaceport station on the place blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more regarding 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.