.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is accessible for limited meeting options beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming objective to the International Spaceport Station in September.The digital job interviews will certainly stream reside on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, as well as the company's website. Find out how to flow NASA+ through a variety of systems consisting of social media.Interested media should submit a demand absolutely no beyond 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Facility 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 Ivan Vagner. The trio will devote around 6 months aboard the periodic research laboratory before going back to Planet in the spring of 2025.During his attend orbit, Pettit will certainly administer medical inspections and also modern technology exhibitions to help prepare the crew for future room purposes as well as offer perks to individuals on Earth. Pettit will certainly take part in numerous of the dozens experiments taking place during the course of his purpose, featuring analyzing just how spaceflight influences blood clotting, proceeding tests of technology to create human stem cells precede, and contributing his one-of-a-kind digital photography abilities to the long-running Crew Planet Reviews study of just how Earth is actually modifying gradually.NASA decided on Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A professional of three spaceflights, he has actually helped in important improvements in modern technology and presentations for individual area exploration. He worked as a scientific research policeman for Expedition 6 in 2003, functioned the robotic upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and also functioned as a trip engineer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times in space as well as administered pair of spacewalks totting 13 hrs as well as 17 minutes.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Design from Oregon Condition Educational Institution, Corvallis, and also a doctoral level in Chemical Design coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his occupation along with NASA, Pettit worked as a workers scientist at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For more than twenty years, people have actually resided as well as worked constantly aboard the International Space Station, accelerating technology, and also making investigation developments that are actually certainly not achievable in the world. The station is an important testbed for NASA to comprehend and also conquer the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden commercial options in reduced Planet track. As business business focus on offering individual space transit companies and locations as portion of a strong reduced Earth orbit economic situation, NASA has the capacity to focus more of its own sources on deep space purposes to the Moon as well as Mars.Get breaking off updates, photos and components coming from the spaceport station on the place blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Discover More about International Spaceport station research study as well as operations 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.