.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is readily available for restricted meeting possibilities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming mission to the International Spaceport Station in September.The digital job interviews will definitely stream survive NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and the company's web site. Discover exactly how to stream NASA+ through a selection of systems consisting of social networking sites.Interested media have to send a demand no later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit is going to introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad will certainly devote approximately six months aboard the periodic laboratory before coming back to Earth in the springtime of 2025.During the course of his attend track, Pettit will administer clinical investigations and also technology demonstrations to help ready the team for future space purposes and also offer advantages to folks on Earth. Pettit is going to participate in many of the thousands of experiments happening in the course of his mission, featuring examining exactly how spaceflight impacts blood clotting, continuing exams of innovation to create individual stalk tissues precede, as well as adding his distinct photography abilities to the long-running Staff Earth Monitorings study of just how Earth is actually transforming with time.NASA picked Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A professional of three spaceflights, he has actually contributed to essential advancements in innovation as well as presentations for individual room exploration. He served as a scientific research officer for Exploration 6 in 2003, ran the robot arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and worked as an air travel designer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days in space and carried out two spacewalks totting 13 hrs and 17 mins.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds an undergraduate's level in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State College, Corvallis, and also a doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his career with NASA, Pettit worked as a team scientist at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For much more than twenty years, human beings have stayed and functioned regularly aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge, and also creating research study developments that are not possible on Earth. The place is a critical testbed for NASA to understand and eliminate the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to extend business options in low Earth orbit. As office providers concentrate on delivering human space transport companies as well as destinations as aspect of a strong reduced Planet orbit economic situation, NASA manages to concentrate even more of its information on deeper space missions to the Moon as well as Mars.Get breaking updates, pictures and also functions coming from the spaceport station on the station blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More concerning International Spaceport station analysis as well as functions 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.