.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is available for minimal meeting chances starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming purpose to the International Space Station in September.The online job interviews will definitely flow survive on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and also the firm's internet site. Learn how to flow NASA+ by means of a selection of platforms featuring social networks.Intrigued media need to provide a request no later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will certainly introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The trio will definitely invest about six months aboard the orbital laboratory before returning to Planet in the spring of 2025.Throughout his attend orbit, Pettit is going to conduct medical examinations and modern technology exhibitions to help ready the team for future room objectives and also offer benefits to people in the world. Pettit will certainly join numerous of the dozens practices happening during his purpose, featuring examining how spaceflight influences blood clot, carrying on examinations of technology to generate individual stem tissues in space, and providing his special digital photography capabilities to the long-running Staff Planet Reviews study of exactly how The planet is actually changing with time.NASA decided on Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. An expert of 3 spaceflights, he has supported integral innovations in technology as well as exhibitions for human room expedition. He acted as a science officer for Exploration 6 in 2003, ran the robotic upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and acted as a trip designer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times in space as well as conducted pair of spacewalks completing 13 hrs and also 17 moments.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds a bachelor's level in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Before his job with NASA, Pettit worked as a workers expert at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than two decades, people have lived and also operated continuously aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge, as well as bring in investigation developments that are actually not feasible in the world. The place is an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend and get over the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to expand industrial options in low Planet track. As commercial firms concentrate on giving human room transit services and also destinations as component of a strong reduced Planet track economic condition, NASA has the capacity to concentrate more of its information on deep-seated room objectives to the Moon and Mars.Acquire breaking headlines, pictures as well as features from the space station on the station blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More concerning International Spaceport station study as well as operations 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.