.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually readily available for minimal job interview opportunities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming purpose to the International Space Station in September.The online interviews will definitely flow survive NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and also the company's internet site. Discover how to stream NASA+ by means of a range of systems featuring social networking sites.Excited media have to provide a request no 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 will certainly release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The trio is going to invest around 6 months aboard the orbital lab just before going back to Earth in the spring season of 2025.During the course of his attend orbit, Pettit will certainly conduct medical investigations and innovation demos to help prepare the workers for potential area goals and also offer perks to people in the world. Pettit will join numerous of the manies practices taking place in the course of his mission, featuring analyzing how spaceflight influences blood clot, continuing exams of innovation to create individual stalk tissues precede, and contributing his one-of-a-kind photography abilities to the long-running Team The planet Monitorings research study of how Planet is actually changing with time.NASA picked Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A professional of three spaceflights, he has actually added to indispensable developments in innovation and also presentations for individual area expedition. He worked as a science officer for Trip 6 in 2003, ran the robot upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and acted as a trip designer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days in space as well as performed two spacewalks totting thirteen hrs as well as 17 mins.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps a bachelor's level in Chemical Design from Oregon State University, Corvallis, and also a doctorate level in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Before his job along with NASA, Pettit worked as a staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For greater than two decades, human beings have resided and also worked continually aboard the International Space Station, advancing accurate knowledge, and bring in investigation breakthroughs that are actually not achievable on Earth. The place is a critical testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as eliminate the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to increase business options in low The planet track. As industrial providers pay attention to offering human room transport services as well as destinations as portion of a robust reduced Earth orbit economic condition, NASA has the capacity to focus additional of its own sources on deep space goals to the Moon and Mars.Get breaking off information, images as well as features coming from the space station on the station blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station analysis as well as operations 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.