.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is available for limited job interview opportunities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming objective to the International Space Station in September.The virtual interviews will definitely flow survive on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and also the company's internet site. Know just how to flow NASA+ via a variety of platforms consisting of social media sites.Intrigued media must submit a demand zero behind 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The triad will certainly invest around 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory before coming back to Planet in the spring season of 2025.In the course of his time in track, Pettit will perform scientific examinations and modern technology exhibitions to assist prepare the crew for potential area goals and also offer advantages to individuals in the world. Pettit will participate in many of the dozens experiments occurring during his purpose, featuring analyzing how spaceflight has an effect on blood clot, proceeding tests of innovation to produce individual stalk tissues in space, and contributing his one-of-a-kind photography skills to the long-running Team Earth Monitorings study of exactly how The planet is actually modifying gradually.NASA picked Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A veteran of 3 spaceflights, he has supported integral innovations in modern technology and demonstrations for human space exploration. He acted as a science officer for Exploration 6 in 2003, worked the robotic arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, as well as acted as a tour developer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days in space and also carried out pair of spacewalks amounting to 13 hrs as well as 17 moments.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds a bachelor's level in Chemical Design coming from Oregon Condition Educational Institution, Corvallis, as well as a doctorate level in Chemical Engineering coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Before his profession along with NASA, Pettit worked as a workers scientist at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than two decades, people have actually stayed and also worked constantly aboard the International Space Station, progressing scientific knowledge, as well as making analysis advances that are actually certainly not feasible in the world. The place is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to recognize and also eliminate the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to extend office options in low Planet orbit. As industrial providers pay attention to supplying individual area transit solutions and locations as aspect of a durable low Earth track economic climate, NASA manages to center even more of its own resources on deeper space missions to the Moon and Mars.Acquire breaking off news, graphics and features coming from the spaceport station on the place blog site, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More concerning International Spaceport station analysis and also 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.