.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is accessible for restricted meeting options starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming mission to the International Spaceport Station in September.The online job interviews will stream reside on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, and the firm's internet site. Learn just how to stream NASA+ through an assortment of systems featuring social media.Excited media should provide a request zero beyond 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will certainly launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad will certainly invest about 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory just before going back to Planet in the spring season of 2025.In the course of his time in track, Pettit will certainly carry out scientific inspections and technology demos to aid prepare the staff for future space objectives and offer advantages to individuals in the world. Pettit is going to join several of the thousands of practices taking place during the course of his goal, including studying how spaceflight impacts blood clot, carrying on exams of modern technology to produce individual stalk cells in space, and also providing his special digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Staff Earth Monitorings research study of exactly how Planet is actually modifying with time.NASA chose Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. An expert of three spaceflights, he has resulted in essential developments in technology as well as demos for individual space expedition. He served as a scientific research policeman for Trip 6 in 2003, operated the robotic upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and acted as a tour designer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days in space and performed pair of spacewalks amounting to 13 hours and 17 minutes.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds a bachelor's level in Chemical Design coming from Oregon State Educational Institution, Corvallis, and a doctorate level in Chemical Design from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Before his profession along with NASA, Pettit worked as a staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than twenty years, human beings have actually lived and also operated constantly aboard the International Space Station, progressing scientific knowledge, and creating research study innovations that are not possible in the world. The station is a vital testbed for NASA to know and get rid of the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden business opportunities in reduced Planet track. As commercial business focus on offering individual area transportation services and locations as aspect of a durable reduced Planet track economic situation, NASA has the capacity to concentrate even more of its sources on deep area objectives to the Moon and Mars.Obtain breaking information, images as well as components from the space station on the station blog, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more regarding International Space Station study and functions 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.