.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually readily available for restricted meeting options starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming mission to the International Spaceport Station in September.The digital job interviews will certainly stream reside on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and also the company's site. Know exactly how to flow NASA+ via a range of platforms consisting of social networking sites.Fascinated media should provide a request zero 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 will release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The triad will certainly spend around 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory before returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025.In the course of his time in orbit, Pettit will certainly conduct scientific inspections as well as technology demos to assist prep the staff for potential room goals and also provide perks to folks in the world. Pettit will certainly participate in many of the hundreds of practices happening in the course of his goal, consisting of analyzing how spaceflight influences blood clotting, proceeding exams of technology to create individual stem tissues precede, and also contributing his one-of-a-kind photography abilities to the long-running Workers The planet Observations research study of just how Earth is actually transforming over time.NASA decided on Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A veteran of 3 spaceflights, he has actually contributed to important developments in innovation and also demos for human space expedition. He served as a science officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, functioned the automated arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, and served as a tour designer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times precede as well as carried out two spacewalks completing 13 hrs as well as 17 mins.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds an undergraduate's level in Chemical Design coming from Oregon State Educational Institution, Corvallis, and also a doctoral degree in Chemical Design coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Before his career along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a personnel researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than twenty years, people have actually stayed as well as operated regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing scientific knowledge, and bring in study advances that are actually not feasible in the world. The station is a critical testbed for NASA to comprehend and also get rid of the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to broaden industrial possibilities in low The planet track. As office business focus on delivering individual area transportation solutions and also places as component of a strong low Planet track economic climate, NASA is able to center additional of its resources on deeper room purposes to the Moon and Mars.Get cutting headlines, images and attributes coming from the space station on the station blog post, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More regarding International Space Station analysis as well as procedures 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.