.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is readily available for restricted job interview possibilities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to cover his upcoming purpose to the International Spaceport Station in September.The digital meetings are going to flow reside on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, as well as the agency's site. Learn just how to flow NASA+ through a selection of systems consisting of social media sites.Intrigued media must submit a request no later than 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 is going to release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad is going to devote approximately six months aboard the orbital laboratory prior to returning to Earth in the spring season of 2025.In the course of his attend orbit, Pettit will perform medical inspections and technology presentations to assist prep the team for future area missions and also provide benefits to individuals in the world. Pettit will definitely take part in several of the dozens experiments happening during the course of his purpose, featuring examining just how spaceflight has an effect on blood clot, proceeding tests of modern technology to generate individual stalk cells in space, and also contributing his one-of-a-kind photography abilities to the long-running Staff Planet Observations study of how The planet is modifying with time.NASA decided on Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A veteran of 3 spaceflights, he has actually brought about integral innovations in modern technology as well as demonstrations for human room expedition. He served as a scientific research police officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, operated the robotic arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and acted as a trip engineer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times precede as well as performed 2 spacewalks totaling thirteen hours as well as 17 moments.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's degree in Chemical Design coming from Oregon Condition College, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his profession along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a workers expert at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than two decades, human beings have resided and operated continually aboard the International Space Station, progressing scientific knowledge, and creating research study developments that are actually certainly not possible in the world. The place is actually a vital testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as get rid of the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden industrial possibilities in reduced Planet track. As office business focus on providing individual space transportation services as well as destinations as component of a sturdy reduced The planet track economy, NASA manages to center more of its own resources on deep area goals to the Moon and also Mars.Acquire breaking off updates, pictures and also functions from the space station on the station blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more about International Spaceport station study and 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.