.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is offered for restricted job interview possibilities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming purpose to the International Space Station in September.The virtual meetings are going to flow survive on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, as well as the organization's website. Find out exactly how to flow NASA+ through a selection of platforms consisting of social networking sites.Fascinated media should provide an ask for zero beyond 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The trio will certainly devote about six months aboard the periodic lab just before coming back to Earth in the spring season of 2025.Throughout his attend orbit, Pettit is going to administer scientific inspections and also innovation presentations to help prepare the crew for potential room goals as well as supply benefits to individuals on Earth. Pettit will join several of the thousands of experiments occurring in the course of his goal, featuring studying just how spaceflight impacts blood clot, continuing exams of modern technology to make individual stalk tissues precede, and adding his one-of-a-kind digital photography abilities to the long-running Staff Earth Observations research study of how Earth is altering as time go on.NASA chose Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A veteran of three spaceflights, he has contributed to indispensable improvements in modern technology and also demos for human area expedition. He worked as a science police officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, ran the robot upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, as well as worked as a trip engineer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times precede as well as carried out two spacewalks amounting to thirteen hours and 17 minutes.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds a bachelor's level in Chemical Design from Oregon State University, Corvallis, and a doctoral degree in Chemical Design coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his career along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a staff expert at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For greater than twenty years, human beings have actually stayed as well as worked constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving scientific knowledge, and also creating investigation advancements that are certainly not possible on Earth. The station is actually an important testbed for NASA to recognize as well as get over the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend office options in reduced The planet track. As business firms concentrate on supplying individual room transportation companies as well as destinations as portion of a sturdy reduced Earth orbit economic climate, NASA manages to focus more of its sources on deep-seated area purposes to the Moon and also Mars.Get cutting headlines, graphics and functions coming from the space station on the place weblog, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More regarding International Space Station research 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.