.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is actually available for minimal interview options beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming objective to the International Spaceport Station in September.The online job interviews are going to flow reside on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and the company's internet site. Find out how to stream NASA+ by means of a wide array of systems featuring social networks.Intrigued media need to provide a request no behind 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit is going to launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio will devote roughly 6 months aboard the periodic research laboratory just before going back to Planet in the spring of 2025.In the course of his time in track, Pettit is going to perform medical inspections as well as technology presentations to assist prepare the team for future area goals and also provide advantages to folks in the world. Pettit will definitely take part in many of the thousands of practices happening during the course of his mission, including researching how spaceflight impacts blood clot, proceeding exams of modern technology to produce human stem cells in space, and adding his distinct digital photography skills to the long-running Workers The planet Observations research study of exactly how Planet is actually changing with time.NASA selected Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A veteran of three spaceflights, he has helped in indispensable innovations in innovation and demos for human space exploration. He worked as a science police officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, operated the robotic arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and functioned as a flight developer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times in space as well as carried out pair of spacewalks amounting to thirteen hrs and 17 mins.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds an undergraduate's level in Chemical Engineering from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, and a doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his career with NASA, Pettit functioned as a team scientist at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than two decades, people have actually stayed and also worked continually aboard the International Space Station, progressing scientific knowledge, as well as creating analysis advances that are actually not achievable in the world. The station is a crucial testbed for NASA to understand as well as eliminate the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden commercial possibilities in reduced Earth orbit. As industrial providers concentrate on providing individual space transportation services as well as locations as part of a strong low Earth track economic condition, NASA is able to center even more of its own sources on deeper space purposes to the Moon and also Mars.Receive breaking off information, photos and functions from the spaceport station on the station blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more about International Spaceport station analysis and functions 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.