.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is available for minimal job interview chances beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming purpose to the International Spaceport Station in September.The digital meetings will definitely flow reside on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and also the organization's internet site. Discover how to stream NASA+ by means of a wide array of platforms including social media.Fascinated media have to send a request zero later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will certainly introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad will definitely devote roughly 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory before returning to The planet in the spring season of 2025.In the course of his attend track, Pettit will perform scientific inspections as well as innovation exhibitions to help prepare the staff for future space missions as well as give benefits to folks on Earth. Pettit will participate in several of the dozens practices taking place throughout his goal, featuring examining how spaceflight affects blood clotting, proceeding tests of technology to generate human stalk tissues precede, and adding his distinct photography skill-sets to the long-running Workers Earth Observations research study of how Planet is actually transforming in time.NASA chose Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A pro of three spaceflights, he has added to important developments in technology and also exhibitions for individual area expedition. He acted as a scientific research police officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, functioned the automated upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and also worked as an air travel developer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times in space and performed two spacewalks totting 13 hrs and also 17 mins.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps a bachelor's degree in Chemical Design coming from Oregon State University, Corvallis, and also a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his occupation along with NASA, Pettit operated as a team researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than 20 years, human beings have resided and worked consistently aboard the International Space Station, accelerating technology, as well as creating analysis discoveries that are actually certainly not feasible in the world. The station is a critical testbed for NASA to understand and also eliminate the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase office opportunities in low The planet track. As business firms concentrate on providing individual space transport companies and locations as portion of a strong reduced Earth track economy, NASA manages to concentrate more of its own resources on deeper room objectives to the Moon and also Mars.Obtain breaking news, pictures as well as attributes from the spaceport station on the station weblog, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more regarding International Space Station research and also 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.