.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is offered for restricted interview possibilities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.The virtual job interviews are going to flow survive on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and also the company's website. Find out how to stream NASA+ via an assortment of systems consisting of social networking sites.Excited media should send a demand zero behind 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 probe, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The triad will spend roughly 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory prior to returning to Planet in the spring of 2025.During his time in track, Pettit will certainly perform clinical examinations as well as innovation presentations to assist prepare the workers for future space goals as well as provide advantages to individuals in the world. Pettit is going to join several of the hundreds of experiments taking place in the course of his mission, including analyzing just how spaceflight has an effect on blood clotting, carrying on exams of technology to produce human stem tissues in space, and also adding his one-of-a-kind digital photography skills to the long-running Workers Earth Monitorings study of just how Planet is actually changing over time.NASA selected Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A veteran of 3 spaceflights, he has helped in indispensable innovations in technology and exhibitions for human space exploration. He served as a science police officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, ran the robotic upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and acted as an air travel engineer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times in space and administered 2 spacewalks completing thirteen hrs and also 17 mins.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Design coming from Oregon Condition Educational Institution, Corvallis, and also a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his occupation along with NASA, Pettit operated as a team researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than 20 years, people have actually resided and also worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, progressing accurate knowledge, and creating analysis developments that are certainly not possible on Earth. The place is a crucial testbed for NASA to recognize as well as beat the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to extend office chances in reduced Earth track. As industrial firms pay attention to providing human area transportation services as well as locations as part of a robust reduced Earth track economic situation, NASA has the ability to center more of its sources on deep-seated room purposes to the Moon and also Mars.Acquire breaking off updates, graphics and attributes from the space station on the station blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More regarding International Space Station research study as well as 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.