.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is offered for minimal job interview options starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming objective to the International Space Station in September.The virtual interviews will stream live on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and the company's site. Know how to flow NASA+ by means of a variety of platforms consisting of social media sites.Fascinated media should send an ask for zero beyond 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit is going to introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio will certainly invest approximately six months aboard the orbital laboratory before returning to Planet in the spring of 2025.During his attend orbit, Pettit will perform clinical investigations as well as technology demos to assist prepare the team for potential area missions and also offer advantages to folks on Earth. Pettit is going to participate in many of the hundreds of experiments taking place in the course of his mission, including analyzing how spaceflight has an effect on blood clotting, carrying on examinations of technology to produce individual stalk tissues precede, and providing his special digital photography skills to the long-running Crew Planet Reviews research of exactly how Planet is actually transforming eventually.NASA chose Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. An expert of three spaceflights, he has contributed to essential innovations in modern technology and demonstrations for individual room expedition. He worked as a scientific research officer for Exploration 6 in 2003, worked the robotic arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and also acted as a trip developer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times in space and carried out 2 spacewalks totting thirteen hours as well as 17 minutes.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Design from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, and a doctorate degree in Chemical Design coming from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his job along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a staff researcher at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than 20 years, people have stayed and also worked regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing scientific knowledge, and bring in study advances that are actually certainly not possible on Earth. The station is a vital testbed for NASA to recognize and get over the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden business options in low Earth orbit. As industrial providers focus on providing human area transit solutions and destinations as aspect of a strong low Planet orbit economic condition, NASA manages to concentrate more of its resources on deep area purposes to the Moon and also Mars.Acquire breaking off headlines, photos and functions coming from the spaceport station on the place blog, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station research and 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.