.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually accessible for limited meeting possibilities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming goal to the International Space Station in September.The digital job interviews will flow reside on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, as well as the firm's web site. Know just how to flow NASA+ through a wide array of systems featuring social media sites.Excited media have to submit a request zero behind 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio is going to devote about six months aboard the periodic laboratory prior to returning to Planet in the springtime of 2025.During his time in track, Pettit will certainly administer clinical inspections and innovation presentations to aid prep the workers for future area missions and also supply perks to people on Earth. Pettit will certainly participate in several of the dozens practices taking place during his purpose, including studying exactly how spaceflight impacts blood clot, continuing tests of technology to create individual stalk cells precede, as well as providing his distinct photography capabilities to the long-running Crew Planet Observations research of just how Earth is actually changing gradually.NASA decided on Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A professional of 3 spaceflights, he has resulted in indispensable innovations in modern technology and also exhibitions for individual space exploration. He worked as a science policeman for Expedition 6 in 2003, functioned the robotic upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, as well as served as an air travel engineer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days in space and performed 2 spacewalks totting 13 hrs as well as 17 moments.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Design coming from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, and a doctoral level in Chemical Design coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his occupation along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a personnel researcher at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than twenty years, people have resided and also functioned continuously aboard the International Space Station, advancing technology, and also making research advances that are actually not possible on Earth. The station is actually a critical testbed for NASA to understand and conquer the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase office chances in low Earth orbit. As commercial companies concentrate on providing human space transport services and also places as part of a strong low Earth orbit economic situation, NASA manages to focus additional of its own information on deep-seated room missions to the Moon and also Mars.Receive breaking updates, photos and also functions coming from the space station on the station blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station investigation as well as 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.