.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually available for limited job interview possibilities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming objective to the International Space Station in September.The virtual interviews are going to flow live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and also the firm's internet site. Learn exactly how to flow NASA+ via an assortment of systems including social media sites.Intrigued media have to send an ask for absolutely no later than 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 certainly release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio will spend around 6 months aboard the periodic lab prior to returning to Planet in the springtime of 2025.During his time in track, Pettit will carry out medical investigations as well as technology demonstrations to aid prepare the team for future room purposes and give perks to people in the world. Pettit will definitely take part in several of the numerous experiments taking place during his purpose, consisting of studying just how spaceflight has an effect on blood clot, proceeding tests of modern technology to generate individual stalk tissues precede, as well as contributing his unique digital photography capabilities to the long-running Workers The planet Monitorings study of just how Planet is changing over time.NASA picked Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. An expert of 3 spaceflights, he has actually brought about important developments in modern technology and also demos for human area exploration. He acted as a science police officer for Trip 6 in 2003, ran the automated upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and functioned as a trip engineer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days in space as well as carried out two spacewalks amounting to 13 hrs as well as 17 minutes.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's degree in Chemical Design coming from Oregon State University, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering coming from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his profession with NASA, Pettit worked as a personnel scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than 20 years, people have stayed and also worked continually aboard the International Space Station, evolving technology, and making study innovations that are actually not possible on Earth. The station is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to understand and get over the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to extend office chances in reduced The planet track. As business business pay attention to offering individual room transit solutions as well as places as aspect of a durable reduced Earth orbit economy, NASA has the ability to center additional of its information on deep room objectives to the Moon and Mars.Obtain cutting headlines, graphics and attributes coming from the space station on the station blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More about International Space Station research and operations 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.