.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is accessible for limited interview chances starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming mission to the International Spaceport Station in September.The virtual job interviews will definitely stream reside on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and the organization's site. Know how to stream NASA+ by means of a selection of systems featuring social networks.Intrigued media need to submit a demand zero beyond 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 is going to release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio is going to spend around six months aboard the periodic laboratory prior to going back to The planet in the springtime of 2025.During his attend track, Pettit will certainly carry out scientific examinations and also innovation presentations to assist prep the staff for potential space objectives and also provide benefits to individuals on Earth. Pettit will certainly participate in several of the dozens experiments occurring during his mission, featuring researching exactly how spaceflight impacts blood clotting, continuing exams of technology to produce human stem cells in space, as well as providing his distinct photography skills to the long-running Workers The planet Observations study of how Earth is transforming with time.NASA selected Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A professional of 3 spaceflights, he has contributed to essential developments in innovation and also exhibitions for human space expedition. He acted as a science policeman for Trip 6 in 2003, worked the automated upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, as well as acted as an air travel engineer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days in space and also conducted 2 spacewalks amounting to thirteen hours and 17 mins.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's degree in Chemical Design from Oregon State Educational Institution, Corvallis, and also a doctorate level in Chemical Engineering from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Before his occupation along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a team researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For greater than twenty years, humans have resided and also functioned constantly aboard the International Space Station, accelerating technology, and also making analysis innovations that are actually certainly not feasible on Earth. The place is a vital testbed for NASA to know as well as get over the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to increase industrial possibilities in reduced Earth track. As commercial companies focus on giving individual room transportation companies and locations as aspect of a durable reduced The planet track economic condition, NASA has the ability to center additional of its resources on deep room missions to the Moon as well as Mars.Acquire cutting information, photos as well as features coming from the space station on the place blog post, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station research study as well as 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.