.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is accessible for restricted job interview options starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to cover his upcoming objective to the International Spaceport Station in September.The virtual interviews will certainly stream survive on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, as well as the company's website. Find out exactly how to flow NASA+ via a selection of platforms featuring social networks.Excited media should send an ask for absolutely no later than 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 is going to release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio is going to devote approximately six months aboard the orbital lab just before returning to Earth in the spring of 2025.During his time in track, Pettit is going to perform scientific examinations and innovation exhibitions to aid ready the crew for potential space goals as well as offer advantages to individuals in the world. Pettit will certainly participate in numerous of the thousands of practices happening throughout his purpose, featuring studying how spaceflight influences blood clotting, carrying on exams of technology to produce individual stalk tissues in space, and providing his unique digital photography skills to the long-running Workers The planet Monitorings research study of how Planet is modifying gradually.NASA selected Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A veteran of 3 spaceflights, he has actually supported essential developments in innovation and demonstrations for individual room exploration. He served as a science officer for Exploration 6 in 2003, worked the robotic arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, as well as served as a tour designer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days precede and also administered two spacewalks amounting to thirteen hrs and also 17 mins.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps a bachelor's level in Chemical Engineering from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, and a doctoral level in Chemical Design from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his occupation along with NASA, Pettit worked as a team expert at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than two decades, human beings have stayed as well as worked constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing scientific knowledge, and also bring in research developments that are actually not possible in the world. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to know as well as eliminate the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow industrial opportunities in low The planet orbit. As commercial firms focus on providing individual room transportation solutions as well as places as component of a durable low Planet track economic climate, NASA has the capacity to focus additional of its own information on deep-seated room purposes to the Moon and Mars.Obtain breaking off updates, images as well as attributes coming from the space station on the station weblog, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more about International Space Station investigation 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.