.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is accessible for restricted interview chances starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming mission to the International Spaceport Station in September.The virtual job interviews are going to flow survive NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and also the company's web site. Discover exactly how to flow NASA+ with an assortment of platforms consisting of social media sites.Fascinated media have to send an ask for no beyond 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 will certainly launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio will certainly spend around six months aboard the orbital laboratory prior to returning to The planet in the springtime of 2025.In the course of his attend orbit, Pettit will perform clinical examinations and also innovation exhibitions to help prepare the team for potential room goals as well as supply advantages to individuals in the world. Pettit will definitely participate in several of the manies experiments happening during his objective, including analyzing how spaceflight impacts blood clotting, carrying on examinations of innovation to make human stem tissues precede, as well as providing his unique photography capabilities to the long-running Staff Earth Observations study of just how Planet is altering with time.NASA chose Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A professional of three spaceflights, he has contributed to integral advancements in innovation as well as presentations for individual area exploration. He acted as a science police officer for Trip 6 in 2003, ran the automated upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and functioned as a flight developer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times precede and administered two spacewalks totting thirteen hours and also 17 moments.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon State Educational Institution, Corvallis, and a doctorate level in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his job along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a team researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than two decades, people have actually lived as well as worked regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving technology, and also bring in study innovations that are not feasible in the world. The place is actually a vital testbed for NASA to understand and also overcome the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow business possibilities in low The planet orbit. As commercial providers pay attention to providing human space transit companies as well as places as component of a sturdy low Planet orbit economic climate, NASA has the ability to focus additional of its own resources on deep-seated space goals to the Moon and Mars.Obtain breaking off updates, images and also components coming from the spaceport station on the station blog, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More concerning International Spaceport station research study as well as 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.