.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is readily available for limited job interview opportunities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming goal to the International Spaceport Station in September.The online meetings are going to stream survive on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, as well as the agency's web site. Know how to stream NASA+ with an assortment of platforms including social networks.Appealed to media have to provide an ask for absolutely no later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad is going to spend approximately six months aboard the orbital lab prior to returning to Earth in the spring of 2025.During his attend track, Pettit is going to conduct clinical examinations as well as technology demos to aid prepare the staff for future area goals and provide advantages to folks in the world. Pettit is going to participate in numerous of the numerous experiments taking place in the course of his purpose, including examining exactly how spaceflight influences blood clotting, carrying on examinations of innovation to create human stalk cells precede, and providing his special photography abilities to the long-running Team Planet Monitorings research of just how Earth is actually changing over time.NASA selected Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A professional of 3 spaceflights, he has actually helped in essential improvements in technology and presentations for human area expedition. He worked as a scientific research police officer for Trip 6 in 2003, ran the robot arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and also worked as a tour developer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days in space as well as administered 2 spacewalks totting thirteen hrs and 17 moments.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Design coming from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, and also a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Before his job along with NASA, Pettit worked as a workers researcher at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than two decades, human beings have actually resided and operated consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing accurate knowledge, as well as making investigation innovations that are not achievable in the world. The place is an essential testbed for NASA to know and also get over the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to increase business possibilities in low Earth orbit. As office providers pay attention to giving human area transportation companies and places as part of a robust low The planet track economic condition, NASA has the ability to focus additional of its own resources on deep room missions to the Moon as well as Mars.Receive breaking off updates, graphics and also components coming from the spaceport station on the station blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More about International Spaceport station research and 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.