.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is readily available for minimal job interview options beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming mission to the International Spaceport Station in September.The digital interviews are going to flow survive on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, and also the company's internet site. Discover just how to flow NASA+ with a variety of platforms featuring social networks.Excited media must submit a request zero beyond 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio is going to invest approximately 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory prior to coming back to Planet in the spring season of 2025.Throughout his time in track, Pettit is going to carry out scientific inspections and also technology exhibitions to assist prepare the workers for potential area missions and provide benefits to individuals in the world. Pettit is going to participate in many of the dozens experiments taking place during the course of his goal, consisting of examining just how spaceflight impacts blood clot, proceeding tests of technology to generate individual stalk cells precede, and also adding his special photography skills to the long-running Team The planet Observations research of how Planet is actually modifying in time.NASA selected Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. An expert of 3 spaceflights, he has actually supported indispensable improvements in technology and demos for human room expedition. He functioned as a science police officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, functioned the automated upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and acted as a trip developer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times in space and performed pair of spacewalks totting thirteen hrs and also 17 moments.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon State Educational Institution, Corvallis, as well as a doctorate degree in Chemical Engineering coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his occupation with NASA, Pettit worked as a team scientist at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For greater than two decades, humans have actually lived and operated consistently aboard the International Space Station, advancing accurate knowledge, and creating investigation discoveries that are not feasible in the world. The station is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to know as well as eliminate the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to broaden commercial chances in low Earth orbit. As commercial providers concentrate on offering human room transportation companies and also places as portion of a robust reduced The planet orbit economy, NASA has the capacity to concentrate more of its information on deep-seated room purposes to the Moon as well as Mars.Receive breaking off information, photos and components coming from the space station on the place blog, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More concerning International Spaceport station study and 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.