.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is on call for minimal meeting chances starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming objective to the International Space Station in September.The virtual job interviews will certainly stream survive on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and the company's internet site. Learn exactly how to stream NASA+ by means of a selection of systems consisting of social media sites.Intrigued media must submit a request zero later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will certainly release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The trio will definitely devote approximately 6 months aboard the orbital lab before going back to Earth in the spring of 2025.In the course of his time in track, Pettit will definitely administer clinical examinations and also innovation exhibitions to aid ready the workers for potential room goals as well as deliver advantages to folks in the world. Pettit will join numerous of the hundreds of experiments happening throughout his objective, consisting of analyzing how spaceflight influences blood clotting, continuing examinations of innovation to make human stem cells precede, and also contributing his unique photography skill-sets to the long-running Crew Planet Observations study of just how The planet is changing in time.NASA selected Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A professional of 3 spaceflights, he has actually supported integral innovations in modern technology as well as exhibitions for human space exploration. He acted as a science policeman for Expedition 6 in 2003, operated the robot arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and served as a tour designer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times in space and administered 2 spacewalks totaling 13 hours and 17 moments.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores an undergraduate's level in Chemical Engineering from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, and also a doctoral level in Chemical Design coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his career with NASA, Pettit operated as a staff expert at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than twenty years, human beings have actually resided and functioned consistently aboard the International Space Station, evolving scientific knowledge, and also creating investigation breakthroughs that are not achievable on Earth. The place is an important testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as conquer the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to increase office possibilities in reduced The planet track. As office companies focus on delivering human area transportation companies and locations as component of a durable low The planet orbit economic situation, NASA has the ability to center additional of its sources on deep-seated room purposes to the Moon and Mars.Obtain cutting headlines, photos and also features coming from the space station on the place weblog, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More about International Spaceport station research and functions 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.