.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is accessible for restricted meeting options starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming mission to the International Spaceport Station in September.The digital job interviews are going to flow survive NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and also the agency's internet site. Find out how to flow NASA+ with a variety of systems featuring social media.Excited media should submit a demand 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, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The triad is going to devote roughly 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory before coming back to Planet in the springtime of 2025.During the course of his time in orbit, Pettit will conduct scientific inspections as well as modern technology demos to help prepare the staff for future space purposes as well as provide perks to folks in the world. Pettit will definitely take part in numerous of the numerous experiments happening during the course of his objective, consisting of analyzing how spaceflight has an effect on blood clotting, proceeding exams of innovation to generate individual stem cells precede, as well as adding his distinct photography skill-sets to the long-running Workers Earth Monitorings research study of just how The planet is altering as time go on.NASA chose Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A professional of 3 spaceflights, he has actually brought about integral developments in technology and also exhibitions for human area exploration. He acted as a science policeman for Expedition 6 in 2003, worked the automated arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, as well as acted as a tour designer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times in space and administered 2 spacewalks totaling thirteen hrs as well as 17 minutes.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State College, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering coming from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Before his profession with NASA, Pettit functioned as a team researcher at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than twenty years, humans have resided and also operated regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing technology, as well as making investigation advances that are not possible on Earth. The station is actually an essential testbed for NASA to recognize as well as get over the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to increase industrial chances in low Planet track. As commercial providers focus on giving individual area transportation services as well as locations as component of a robust low Earth orbit economic climate, NASA has the capacity to focus even more of its information on deep-seated space goals to the Moon and Mars.Acquire breaking off information, graphics and features coming from the space station on the place blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More regarding International Spaceport station research and also 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.