.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is readily available for limited meeting chances beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming purpose to the International Space Station in September.The digital job interviews will definitely flow live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and the company's web site. Discover how to flow NASA+ by means of a variety of systems featuring social media.Fascinated media have to send a demand zero beyond 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 certainly launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio will definitely invest around six months aboard the periodic laboratory before coming back to Planet in the springtime of 2025.During the course of his attend orbit, Pettit will certainly administer clinical investigations and also technology exhibitions to assist prepare the workers for potential area purposes and give perks to folks in the world. Pettit is going to take part in numerous of the hundreds of experiments happening throughout his objective, including examining how spaceflight has an effect on blood clot, proceeding exams of technology to produce human stem cells precede, and also adding his unique photography skills to the long-running Staff Planet Monitorings research study of how Planet is actually transforming as time go on.NASA chose Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A veteran of three spaceflights, he has brought about integral improvements in technology and demonstrations for individual room exploration. He worked as a scientific research officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, ran the robot upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, as well as acted as a flight developer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times in space and also administered 2 spacewalks amounting to thirteen hrs as well as 17 minutes.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores an undergraduate's level in Chemical Design from Oregon State College, Corvallis, as well as a doctorate level in Chemical Engineering coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his profession along with NASA, Pettit worked as a staff researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For more than two decades, humans have stayed as well as worked regularly aboard the International Space Station, accelerating accurate knowledge, and also bring in investigation developments that are actually certainly not feasible in the world. The station is actually an important testbed for NASA to know and also overcome the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to expand office opportunities in low Earth orbit. As industrial providers concentrate on supplying human area transportation companies as well as places as component of a robust reduced The planet track economic climate, NASA has the ability to concentrate more of its information on deeper space purposes to the Moon and also Mars.Get cutting headlines, graphics and also components coming from the spaceport station on the station blog, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station analysis and 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.