.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is available for restricted job interview possibilities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming purpose to the International Space Station in September.The online meetings will definitely stream survive NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency's web site. Know just how to stream NASA+ by means of a range of systems consisting of social media.Interested media should submit a request zero beyond 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The trio will certainly devote approximately 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory before coming back to Earth in the spring season of 2025.During the course of his attend track, Pettit is going to perform clinical inspections and also modern technology demonstrations to help prep the staff for future space objectives and also deliver perks to folks on Earth. Pettit is going to take part in several of the numerous experiments occurring during his objective, including studying just how spaceflight influences blood clotting, proceeding examinations of technology to make human stem tissues in space, as well as providing his special digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Team Planet Reviews research study of just how The planet is transforming eventually.NASA selected Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A veteran of three spaceflights, he has actually resulted in essential developments in modern technology and also demos for individual area exploration. He served as a scientific research policeman for Exploration 6 in 2003, functioned the robot arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, as well as served as a tour designer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times precede and carried out 2 spacewalks totaling 13 hrs and also 17 moments.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Design coming from Oregon State Educational Institution, Corvallis, as well as a doctorate degree in Chemical Design coming from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Before his occupation with NASA, Pettit functioned as a team expert at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than 20 years, people have actually stayed and operated regularly aboard the International Space Station, evolving scientific knowledge, as well as creating study discoveries that are not possible on Earth. The station is a vital testbed for NASA to recognize as well as eliminate the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to expand commercial options in reduced The planet track. As commercial firms pay attention to providing human room transportation solutions and also places as component of a sturdy low The planet orbit economic climate, NASA has the ability to center more of its sources on deep room purposes to the Moon and also Mars.Receive breaking off updates, pictures as well as functions coming from the space station on the station blog site, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More concerning International Spaceport station research study as well as operations 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.