.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is readily available for minimal interview chances beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to cover his upcoming purpose to the International Space Station in September.The digital job interviews will certainly stream survive NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, as well as the organization's site. Know just how to flow NASA+ through a variety of systems featuring social media.Excited media should provide an ask for absolutely no later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit is going to launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio is going to spend about six months aboard the orbital lab just before returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025.During his time in orbit, Pettit will carry out scientific examinations and also innovation demonstrations to help ready the crew for potential area purposes as well as give benefits to individuals on Earth. Pettit will take part in several of the dozens practices occurring during his purpose, featuring examining how spaceflight affects blood clotting, carrying on exams of technology to create human stalk tissues precede, as well as adding his unique digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Workers The planet Observations research of just how The planet is actually altering eventually.NASA picked Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A veteran of three spaceflights, he has supported indispensable developments in innovation as well as presentations for individual room exploration. He functioned as a scientific research policeman for Expedition 6 in 2003, worked the automated arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, and also worked as a trip engineer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days in space and also performed pair of spacewalks totting 13 hrs as well as 17 minutes.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral degree in Chemical Design coming from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his occupation along with NASA, Pettit worked as a team expert at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For more than two decades, human beings have lived and also operated constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating technology, as well as making research breakthroughs that are actually not possible on Earth. The place is actually an important testbed for NASA to know and also conquer the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden commercial opportunities in reduced Planet orbit. As business business concentrate on offering individual room transit solutions as well as destinations as aspect of a robust reduced Planet track economic condition, NASA has the ability to focus even more of its information on deep space missions to the Moon and also Mars.Acquire breaking information, images and also attributes coming from the spaceport station on the station blog site, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More about International Space Station research and 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.