.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is on call for limited interview possibilities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming purpose to the International Space Station in September.The virtual job interviews will certainly stream live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, and also the company's website. Find out exactly how to stream NASA+ by means of a wide array of platforms consisting of social media sites.Intrigued media have to provide an ask for zero beyond 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 launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad will spend around 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory just before coming back to The planet in the spring of 2025.In the course of his attend track, Pettit will definitely conduct medical inspections and modern technology demos to help ready the team for future area purposes and also supply advantages to individuals in the world. Pettit is going to participate in several of the thousands of experiments happening throughout his mission, featuring analyzing exactly how spaceflight has an effect on blood clot, carrying on exams of modern technology to produce human stalk tissues precede, and providing his distinct photography capabilities to the long-running Crew Earth Observations study of how Earth is changing gradually.NASA decided on Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A pro of 3 spaceflights, he has actually added to indispensable innovations in innovation as well as exhibitions for individual space exploration. He acted as a scientific research police officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, ran the robot arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and functioned as an air travel engineer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days in space and conducted two spacewalks completing thirteen hrs as well as 17 moments.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds a bachelor's level in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, and also a doctorate level in Chemical Design from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his profession along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a workers expert at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than two decades, human beings have lived and functioned consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing scientific knowledge, and making analysis advances that are actually certainly not achievable on Earth. The station is actually a vital testbed for NASA to know and conquer the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to expand office options in low Earth track. As commercial business pay attention to delivering human area transportation services as well as destinations as aspect of a durable low Earth orbit economic situation, NASA is able to center even more of its resources on deep-seated space missions to the Moon as well as Mars.Acquire breaking off information, images as well as attributes from the spaceport station on the place blog post, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Discover More concerning International Spaceport station research and also 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.