.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is readily available for limited meeting options beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming goal to the International Space Station in September.The virtual job interviews will definitely flow live on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and the agency's website. Discover just how to flow NASA+ with an assortment of systems consisting of social networks.Excited media have to send a request no later than 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 capsule, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio will devote roughly 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory just before going back to Planet in the spring season of 2025.During his attend orbit, Pettit is going to conduct clinical investigations as well as modern technology demos to assist prep the team for future area goals and supply perks to individuals in the world. Pettit is going to join several of the dozens practices happening throughout his mission, including researching just how spaceflight impacts blood clot, carrying on exams of modern technology to produce human stem tissues in space, and adding his distinct photography skills to the long-running Workers The planet Observations research of how Earth is actually transforming over time.NASA picked Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A pro of three spaceflights, he has resulted in integral developments in modern technology as well as demonstrations for human space exploration. He functioned as a scientific research police officer for Exploration 6 in 2003, ran the robot arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and functioned as a tour engineer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days in space and administered 2 spacewalks totaling thirteen hours and 17 mins.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's level in Chemical Design from Oregon Condition College, Corvallis, as well as a doctorate degree in Chemical Engineering from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Before his profession with NASA, Pettit worked as a personnel scientist at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than two decades, people have resided and worked continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing scientific knowledge, and also bring in study developments that are certainly not possible in the world. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to recognize as well as get rid of the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase industrial opportunities in reduced Planet orbit. As office companies focus on delivering human space transportation services and locations as component of a sturdy low The planet orbit economic condition, NASA has the capacity to focus additional of its own information on deep space objectives to the Moon as well as Mars.Obtain breaking news, pictures and features coming from the spaceport station on the station blog post, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more concerning International Space Station study and 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.