.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is accessible for restricted interview options starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming mission to the International Spaceport Station in September.The virtual job interviews will certainly flow reside on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and the company's website. Discover how to flow NASA+ via a variety of systems including social media.Fascinated media should provide a demand no beyond 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit is going to release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The triad will definitely spend approximately 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory prior to coming back to Planet in the spring of 2025.In the course of his attend track, Pettit is going to carry out medical examinations and modern technology presentations to aid prep the staff for future space purposes and supply benefits to folks in the world. Pettit is going to take part in numerous of the manies practices occurring throughout his mission, featuring researching just how spaceflight impacts blood clotting, carrying on exams of technology to create human stalk tissues precede, and providing his one-of-a-kind digital photography abilities to the long-running Team Earth Monitorings research of just how Planet is actually altering with time.NASA decided on Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A pro of three spaceflights, he has actually helped in indispensable improvements in innovation and also demos for individual space exploration. He functioned as a science police officer for Trip 6 in 2003, functioned the automated arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, as well as acted as a tour developer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times in space and also administered pair of spacewalks completing thirteen hours as well as 17 mins.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's level in Chemical Design from Oregon Condition Educational Institution, Corvallis, and also a doctorate level in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his career with NASA, Pettit operated as a staff expert at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For greater than twenty years, human beings have stayed and also worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, evolving scientific knowledge, and bring in research discoveries that are certainly not feasible in the world. The place is actually a critical testbed for NASA to understand and also eliminate the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to grow commercial possibilities in low Earth orbit. As business providers concentrate on delivering human room transportation companies as well as locations as part of a robust reduced Earth track economic condition, NASA manages to focus more of its resources on deep-seated space missions to the Moon as well as Mars.Get breaking off news, images as well as features coming from the spaceport station on the station blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Discover More about International Space Station research study 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.