.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually readily available for limited interview opportunities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming purpose to the International Spaceport Station in September.The virtual job interviews will stream live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, as well as the company's website. Find out just how to flow NASA+ with an assortment of systems consisting of social media sites.Intrigued media have to provide a request 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 introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio will certainly devote around six months aboard the periodic research laboratory just before returning to Planet in the springtime of 2025.Throughout his time in track, Pettit is going to conduct scientific examinations as well as modern technology demos to assist ready the team for future room goals and also supply perks to people in the world. Pettit will definitely join numerous of the dozens practices taking place during the course of his objective, including analyzing how spaceflight impacts blood clot, carrying on examinations of technology to make individual stem cells in space, and also providing his unique photography skills to the long-running Workers The planet Observations research of just how Earth is altering in time.NASA chose Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. An expert of three spaceflights, he has resulted in important developments in innovation and also presentations for human space exploration. He functioned as a scientific research policeman for Exploration 6 in 2003, functioned the robotic upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, as well as served as an air travel developer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times precede and conducted 2 spacewalks totting thirteen hours as well as 17 mins.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon State College, Corvallis, as well as a doctorate degree in Chemical Design coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his career with NASA, Pettit operated as a team scientist at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For greater than two decades, people have actually stayed and also functioned continuously aboard the International Space Station, progressing accurate knowledge, as well as making study developments that are actually certainly not achievable on Earth. The station is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to recognize and beat the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to grow industrial opportunities in reduced Planet orbit. As office firms concentrate on delivering individual space transportation solutions and places as component of a durable reduced Planet orbit economic situation, NASA is able to focus additional of its own information on deep room missions to the Moon and Mars.Acquire cutting headlines, pictures as well as components from the spaceport station on the station blog, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More regarding International Space Station research study and also procedures 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.