.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is available for limited meeting options starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming goal to the International Spaceport Station in September.The virtual job interviews are going to flow live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, and also the agency's internet site. Know exactly how to flow NASA+ through a variety of systems consisting of social media.Fascinated media should send 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 jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit is going to launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad will definitely devote around six months aboard the periodic research laboratory prior to coming back to The planet in the springtime of 2025.Throughout his attend track, Pettit will definitely administer clinical investigations and also technology demonstrations to aid ready the workers for future room objectives as well as give advantages to people on Earth. Pettit will take part in numerous of the numerous experiments taking place during his purpose, including examining exactly how spaceflight affects blood clot, proceeding exams of innovation to create individual stem tissues in space, and adding his special digital photography capabilities to the long-running Crew The planet Monitorings study of exactly how Earth is changing over time.NASA decided on Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A veteran of three spaceflights, he has supported important improvements in technology and presentations for individual area expedition. He functioned as a scientific research police officer for Trip 6 in 2003, operated the robot upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and functioned as an air travel engineer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times in space as well as carried out two spacewalks completing 13 hours and 17 moments.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon State Educational Institution, Corvallis, and also a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his profession along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a workers researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For greater than two decades, people have actually resided and operated regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating scientific knowledge, and also making study advances that are not possible on Earth. The place is a critical testbed for NASA to know and also eliminate the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend commercial chances in low Earth track. As office providers pay attention to offering human area transport services as well as places as portion of a robust low Planet track economy, NASA has the capacity to concentrate more of its sources on deep room missions to the Moon as well as Mars.Acquire breaking off information, graphics as well as features coming from the spaceport station on the place blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More regarding International Spaceport station research study as well as procedures 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.