.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually available for restricted job interview chances beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming objective to the International Space Station in September.The online interviews will definitely flow survive on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and the organization's internet site. Discover how to stream NASA+ with a range of systems consisting of social networking sites.Fascinated media must send an ask for zero beyond 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The trio will certainly invest roughly six months aboard the orbital research laboratory just before coming back to Planet in the spring season of 2025.Throughout his attend track, Pettit will certainly conduct medical inspections and also technology demonstrations to assist prepare the crew for future room purposes as well as provide advantages to people in the world. Pettit is going to join several of the manies practices happening during the course of his objective, consisting of analyzing how spaceflight affects blood clot, continuing examinations of technology to generate human stem cells in space, and also adding his unique digital photography skills to the long-running Staff Earth Observations study of exactly how Earth is actually transforming in time.NASA decided on Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A professional of three spaceflights, he has brought about essential improvements in technology and demos for human room exploration. He functioned as a scientific research policeman for Trip 6 in 2003, worked the robotic upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, as well as served as a trip designer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days precede and also performed pair of spacewalks amounting to 13 hrs and also 17 moments.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's level in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon State College, Corvallis, as well as a doctorate level in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his occupation along with NASA, Pettit operated as a workers researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For greater than two decades, people have actually resided and operated continually aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating scientific knowledge, as well as bring in research innovations that are certainly not possible on Earth. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to recognize and get over the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden business chances in reduced The planet orbit. As business companies concentrate on supplying individual area transportation services as well as locations as part of a durable low The planet track economy, NASA is able to center more of its sources on deeper space missions to the Moon and Mars.Get breaking off updates, pictures and also features from the space station on the station blog, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More regarding International Spaceport station study and also 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.