.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is actually available for restricted interview options beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.The online meetings will definitely stream live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, and the firm's web site. Learn just how to flow NASA+ with a range of systems including social networking sites.Interested media must provide a request absolutely no behind 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 release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad is going to devote about 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory just before coming back to Earth in the spring of 2025.During the course of his time in track, Pettit will certainly administer clinical examinations and also innovation exhibitions to aid prep the crew for potential space purposes as well as supply perks to individuals in the world. Pettit is going to join numerous of the hundreds of experiments occurring during the course of his objective, featuring analyzing exactly how spaceflight impacts blood clot, proceeding tests of modern technology to generate human stem cells in space, and providing his distinct photography capabilities to the long-running Workers Planet Observations research study of how The planet is modifying with time.NASA chose Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A pro of three spaceflights, he has actually added to integral improvements in modern technology and demos for individual space expedition. He worked as a scientific research officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, operated the robotic upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, as well as functioned as a trip engineer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days in space and also administered 2 spacewalks completing 13 hours as well as 17 minutes.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon State College, Corvallis, and a doctorate level in Chemical Engineering from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his career along with NASA, Pettit worked as a team scientist at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than two decades, humans have resided and also functioned consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving scientific knowledge, as well as making research breakthroughs that are actually certainly not achievable in the world. The place is an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend and eliminate the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to increase commercial opportunities in reduced Planet track. As business providers pay attention to delivering human area transport solutions and also places as part of a durable low Planet track economic climate, NASA is able to focus additional of its own resources on deep area goals to the Moon and also Mars.Obtain breaking information, photos and attributes coming from the space station on the station blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station research study and also functions 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.