.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is readily available for limited job interview possibilities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming purpose to the International Spaceport Station in September.The online meetings will certainly stream reside on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and the agency's internet site. Know how to flow NASA+ with a selection of systems featuring social media.Interested media must submit a demand 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 jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad will spend around six months aboard the periodic research laboratory before returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025.During the course of his attend orbit, Pettit will definitely carry out medical examinations as well as technology presentations to assist ready the staff for future room purposes as well as give advantages to people on Earth. Pettit will certainly join numerous of the hundreds of experiments taking place throughout his purpose, including researching exactly how spaceflight influences blood clotting, proceeding examinations of technology to produce human stem tissues precede, and also contributing his one-of-a-kind photography skills to the long-running Workers Earth Monitorings study of how Earth is transforming over time.NASA chose Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A professional of 3 spaceflights, he has helped in integral improvements in innovation as well as exhibitions for human area exploration. He worked as a scientific research officer for Trip 6 in 2003, functioned the robotic arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and also acted as a tour developer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days in space and carried out two spacewalks completing thirteen hrs and 17 moments.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's degree in Chemical Design coming from Oregon Condition Educational Institution, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering coming from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Before his profession along with NASA, Pettit worked as a team researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For much more than 20 years, human beings have resided as well as worked continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing technology, and also bring in analysis advancements that are certainly not achievable in the world. The place is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to comprehend and eliminate the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to increase office possibilities in low Earth orbit. As commercial companies pay attention to providing individual space transit solutions as well as locations as component of a sturdy reduced The planet orbit economic condition, NASA is able to focus more of its sources on deeper space objectives to the Moon as well as Mars.Get cutting updates, pictures and also components coming from the space station on the place weblog, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more concerning International Space Station research study and also functions 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.