.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is actually readily available for restricted job interview opportunities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.The virtual meetings will stream survive NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and the agency's internet site. Know exactly how to flow NASA+ via a wide array of systems including social networking sites.Appealed to media have to provide an ask for zero beyond 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The triad will invest around six months aboard the periodic research laboratory just before returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025.During the course of his time in track, Pettit is going to carry out medical inspections and innovation exhibitions to help prepare the team for future room purposes as well as deliver benefits to individuals on Earth. Pettit will certainly participate in numerous of the hundreds of practices taking place in the course of his mission, featuring analyzing exactly how spaceflight has an effect on blood clot, proceeding exams of modern technology to produce individual stem cells precede, as well as contributing his unique digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Crew Earth Monitorings research of just how Planet is actually changing in time.NASA picked Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A professional of three spaceflights, he has actually helped in indispensable developments in modern technology as well as exhibitions for human area expedition. He served as a science police officer for Exploration 6 in 2003, functioned the robot upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and also acted as a flight engineer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times in space and also conducted pair of spacewalks totting thirteen hours and 17 minutes.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Design from Oregon State University, Corvallis, and a doctorate level in Chemical Design coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his occupation with NASA, Pettit worked as a staff researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than twenty years, people have actually stayed and also worked continually aboard the International Space Station, evolving scientific knowledge, and also creating study breakthroughs that are certainly not possible on Earth. The station is actually an essential testbed for NASA to understand and conquer the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow office options in reduced The planet track. As business companies pay attention to providing individual area transit services as well as places as part of a durable reduced The planet track economic condition, NASA is able to focus additional of its own information on deep space missions to the Moon and Mars.Obtain cutting news, pictures as well as components coming from the spaceport station on the station weblog, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Discover More about International Spaceport station research study and 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.