.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is offered for minimal meeting possibilities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming purpose to the International Space Station in September.The virtual job interviews will definitely stream survive on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, as well as the company's site. Know just how to stream NASA+ via a selection of systems including social networks.Excited media need to provide a request zero behind 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 launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio is going to spend about six months aboard the orbital laboratory before returning to The planet in the springtime of 2025.During his attend track, Pettit will certainly administer clinical investigations and also technology exhibitions to help ready the workers for potential space purposes and also offer perks to people in the world. Pettit will certainly join many of the thousands of experiments occurring throughout his purpose, including examining exactly how spaceflight has an effect on blood clot, continuing tests of innovation to create human stem cells precede, as well as adding his one-of-a-kind digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Workers Earth Observations study of exactly how The planet is altering gradually.NASA picked Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A pro of 3 spaceflights, he has actually brought about indispensable improvements in technology and demos for individual area expedition. He served as a science police officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, ran the automated upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and served as a trip engineer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times in space as well as conducted 2 spacewalks amounting to thirteen hours as well as 17 minutes.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Design coming from Oregon State University, Corvallis, and also a doctorate degree in Chemical Engineering coming from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Before his career with NASA, Pettit worked as a staff researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than twenty years, people have actually stayed as well as operated continuously aboard the International Space Station, accelerating scientific knowledge, and also creating investigation innovations that are not possible on Earth. The place is actually a vital testbed for NASA to understand and get rid of the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase office options in reduced The planet orbit. As commercial companies pay attention to providing human room transportation services and also destinations as component of a robust low Planet track economic condition, NASA has the capacity to center additional of its own resources on deep area missions to the Moon and Mars.Get breaking information, graphics and also features coming from the spaceport station on the station blog site, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More regarding International Space Station research and also procedures 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.