.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is actually readily available for restricted meeting options beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming objective to the International Spaceport Station in September.The virtual interviews will definitely flow reside on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and also the organization's internet site. Find out just how to flow NASA+ via a wide array of systems consisting of social media sites.Intrigued media should provide a request 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 will certainly launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad will definitely spend about 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory before returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025.During his attend track, Pettit will definitely carry out clinical investigations as well as innovation demos to assist prepare the workers for future space goals as well as provide advantages to people in the world. Pettit will take part in several of the manies experiments taking place throughout his objective, featuring studying how spaceflight influences blood clotting, proceeding examinations of modern technology to make individual stem tissues in space, as well as contributing his special photography skills to the long-running Crew Planet Observations research study of exactly how Planet is actually transforming as time go on.NASA decided on Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A pro of 3 spaceflights, he has brought about important developments in technology and also demonstrations for human area exploration. He functioned as a science officer for Trip 6 in 2003, functioned the automated arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and also acted as a trip designer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days precede and also performed 2 spacewalks amounting to 13 hrs as well as 17 moments.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon State University, Corvallis, as well as a doctorate degree in Chemical Engineering from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Before his profession along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a team expert at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For greater than two decades, human beings have lived as well as operated consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving accurate knowledge, and also creating research study breakthroughs that are not feasible on Earth. The place is a vital testbed for NASA to recognize and also eliminate the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to grow business chances in low The planet track. As office firms focus on supplying human room transit services and also destinations as portion of a durable low Planet track economic condition, NASA has the capacity to center additional of its information on deeper area objectives to the Moon and also Mars.Get breaking off information, photos and also features coming from the space station on the place blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More regarding International Space Station study and also 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.