.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is available for minimal job interview possibilities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming objective to the International Space Station in September.The virtual meetings are going to flow live on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and the organization's web site. Learn exactly how to stream NASA+ by means of a wide array of systems featuring social media sites.Fascinated media must send an ask for absolutely no later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit is going to introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio will certainly invest about six months aboard the periodic laboratory prior to coming back to Earth in the spring of 2025.During his time in track, Pettit is going to perform medical examinations and technology exhibitions to assist prepare the staff for potential room objectives and provide advantages to folks in the world. Pettit is going to take part in numerous of the hundreds of experiments occurring throughout his objective, including researching exactly how spaceflight impacts blood clotting, carrying on exams of innovation to create human stem tissues in space, as well as adding his distinct digital photography abilities to the long-running Crew Earth Monitorings research study of how Earth is actually altering as time go on.NASA picked Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. An expert of three spaceflights, he has helped in essential improvements in technology as well as demos for human area expedition. He worked as a science police officer for Exploration 6 in 2003, functioned the robotic upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, and also functioned as a tour developer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days in space and carried out pair of spacewalks totaling 13 hrs as well as 17 minutes.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon State College, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering coming from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his profession along with NASA, Pettit worked as a team expert at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For greater than two decades, people have lived and also functioned continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating technology, as well as bring in research advances that are actually not feasible on Earth. The station is a critical testbed for NASA to understand and also get over the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to grow industrial chances in reduced The planet track. As office providers focus on providing individual area transit solutions and also destinations as part of a strong reduced The planet track economic climate, NASA manages to focus even more of its own sources on deep space purposes to the Moon and Mars.Acquire breaking headlines, photos as well as features from the spaceport station on the station blog post, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More about International Space Station analysis as well as procedures 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.