.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is offered for limited meeting options beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming objective to the International Spaceport Station in September.The virtual job interviews will definitely stream survive NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and also the firm's website. Find out how to stream NASA+ with a selection of platforms featuring social networking sites.Excited media must submit a demand zero later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad will certainly devote roughly six months aboard the periodic laboratory prior to going back to The planet in the spring of 2025.During his time in track, Pettit will definitely perform medical examinations and also technology demos to help prepare the staff for future area missions and provide perks to people on Earth. Pettit will definitely participate in many of the manies experiments occurring in the course of his goal, including examining exactly how spaceflight affects blood clotting, proceeding examinations of innovation to produce individual stalk cells precede, and providing his special digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Staff Earth Monitorings research of how Planet is modifying in time.NASA selected Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. An expert of 3 spaceflights, he has actually helped in indispensable improvements in technology as well as exhibitions for individual area expedition. He functioned as a scientific research officer for Trip 6 in 2003, functioned the robotic arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and also served as an air travel engineer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days in space as well as carried out two spacewalks totaling thirteen hours as well as 17 mins.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Design coming from Oregon State College, Corvallis, and also a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his occupation with NASA, Pettit functioned as a personnel scientist at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For greater than two decades, human beings have actually stayed as well as worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge, and creating study discoveries that are certainly not achievable on Earth. The station is an essential testbed for NASA to understand and eliminate the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend commercial opportunities in low The planet orbit. As industrial business pay attention to supplying human area transit companies and also destinations as component of a robust reduced Planet track economic condition, NASA is able to focus even more of its own sources on deep-seated area purposes to the Moon as well as Mars.Acquire cutting information, graphics and also features coming from the spaceport station on the place blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More concerning International Space Station research 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.