.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually on call for minimal job interview options beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming objective to the International Space Station in September.The online meetings are going to stream reside on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and also the agency's web site. Find out how to flow NASA+ through an assortment of systems consisting of social media sites.Intrigued media should provide a demand no beyond 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 introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The triad will definitely spend approximately 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory just before returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025.Throughout his attend orbit, Pettit will definitely administer medical investigations as well as modern technology exhibitions to help prep the crew for potential room purposes and also deliver perks to folks on Earth. Pettit will certainly join many of the numerous experiments occurring in the course of his purpose, featuring examining exactly how spaceflight has an effect on blood clotting, continuing exams of modern technology to create individual stem cells precede, and also contributing his distinct digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Workers Planet Observations research of exactly how The planet is transforming eventually.NASA decided on Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A veteran of 3 spaceflights, he has resulted in essential improvements in technology and presentations for individual area expedition. He acted as a science police officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, ran the robotic arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and acted as a flight developer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days in space as well as carried out two spacewalks completing 13 hours and also 17 minutes.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds an undergraduate's level in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University, Corvallis, and also a doctorate degree in Chemical Engineering coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his career along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a team researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For much more than twenty years, people have actually resided and worked regularly aboard the International Space Station, accelerating accurate knowledge, and also bring in research advances that are actually not feasible on Earth. The place is a critical testbed for NASA to comprehend and also eliminate the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to increase commercial chances in low Earth orbit. As office firms concentrate on giving individual area transit solutions and destinations as component of a sturdy low Planet orbit economy, NASA has the ability to center additional of its own sources on deep-seated area purposes to the Moon as well as Mars.Receive cutting updates, pictures as well as attributes from the space station on the station weblog, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more regarding International Space Station investigation as well as 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.