.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is offered for limited meeting possibilities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to cover his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.The digital job interviews are going to flow reside on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and also the company's internet site. Find out just how to flow NASA+ through an assortment of platforms featuring social media sites.Intrigued media must send a request no beyond 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 space probe, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio will definitely invest roughly 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory prior to returning to Planet in the spring of 2025.During his time in orbit, Pettit is going to carry out medical examinations and technology demos to assist prep the team for potential area missions as well as give perks to people in the world. Pettit is going to participate in several of the numerous experiments taking place during the course of his purpose, featuring examining how spaceflight impacts blood clot, proceeding exams of modern technology to make human stalk cells precede, and adding his special digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Crew The planet Observations study of exactly how Earth is changing as time go on.NASA picked Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A professional of 3 spaceflights, he has actually added to integral innovations in technology and exhibitions for human room exploration. He served as a science officer for Exploration 6 in 2003, functioned the automated arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and served as a trip developer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days in space and also carried out two spacewalks totting thirteen hours and 17 moments.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's degree in Chemical Design from Oregon State University, Corvallis, as well as a doctorate degree in Chemical Engineering coming from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his job along with NASA, Pettit operated as a personnel scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than two decades, humans have stayed and also functioned continuously aboard the International Space Station, evolving accurate knowledge, as well as making analysis advancements that are not feasible in the world. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to know and also eliminate the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to extend business possibilities in low Planet orbit. As commercial companies concentrate on supplying individual area transportation solutions and also places as component of a sturdy reduced Planet track economic condition, NASA manages to center more of its information on deep space purposes to the Moon and Mars.Get cutting information, pictures and attributes from the spaceport station on the place blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more about International Space Station analysis 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.