.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is accessible for minimal interview chances starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming goal to the International Space Station in September.The virtual job interviews are going to flow survive NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, and also the company's site. Discover just how to flow NASA+ by means of a range of systems featuring social networking sites.Appealed to media must provide a request no later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit is going to release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio will definitely devote approximately 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory prior to returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025.During the course of his attend orbit, Pettit will definitely conduct scientific examinations as well as modern technology presentations to help ready the team for potential space objectives and give perks to individuals on Earth. Pettit is going to participate in several of the hundreds of experiments happening in the course of his objective, consisting of examining how spaceflight influences blood clotting, carrying on examinations of modern technology to make individual stalk cells in space, and also contributing his one-of-a-kind photography skill-sets to the long-running Team Planet Monitorings research of exactly how Earth is actually modifying eventually.NASA chose Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A veteran of three spaceflights, he has actually brought about indispensable advancements in modern technology as well as exhibitions for individual area exploration. He functioned as a scientific research police officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, operated the robotic upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, as well as served as an air travel developer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days precede and also carried out two spacewalks totting thirteen hrs and also 17 moments.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's level in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon Condition Educational Institution, Corvallis, and also a doctoral degree in Chemical Design from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his profession with NASA, Pettit worked as a workers researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For more than 20 years, humans have actually stayed and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, evolving technology, and bring in investigation advances that are actually certainly not achievable in the world. The place is actually a vital testbed for NASA to comprehend and also get over the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to expand industrial chances in low The planet track. As industrial firms concentrate on supplying human space transport solutions as well as destinations as aspect of a durable reduced Earth orbit economic situation, NASA has the ability to center more of its own sources on deep-seated space missions to the Moon and Mars.Acquire breaking information, photos as well as components coming from the spaceport station on the place blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station study and also operations 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.