.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is on call for restricted meeting opportunities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to cover his upcoming purpose to the International Spaceport Station in September.The virtual job interviews will flow survive NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and the firm's site. Find out exactly how to stream NASA+ by means of an assortment of platforms featuring social media sites.Interested media need to provide a demand no beyond 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will certainly introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The triad will spend approximately six months aboard the periodic laboratory prior to returning to Planet in the springtime of 2025.In the course of his attend track, Pettit is going to carry out medical inspections as well as technology demonstrations to aid prep the team for potential room purposes as well as give advantages to people in the world. Pettit will definitely join several of the thousands of experiments taking place in the course of his objective, consisting of researching exactly how spaceflight influences blood clotting, continuing exams of innovation to produce individual stem cells in space, and contributing his special photography abilities to the long-running Workers The planet Reviews research study of exactly how Earth is actually transforming eventually.NASA picked Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A veteran of 3 spaceflights, he has actually supported indispensable developments in technology and also demos for individual room expedition. He served as a science police officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, functioned the automated arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and worked as an air travel designer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times precede as well as performed pair of spacewalks totting thirteen hrs as well as 17 minutes.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Engineering from Oregon Condition Educational Institution, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral degree in Chemical Design coming from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his job along with NASA, Pettit operated as a workers expert at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than twenty years, human beings have actually stayed and also functioned consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving scientific knowledge, and also bring in research study innovations that are certainly not feasible on Earth. The station is an important testbed for NASA to recognize and eliminate the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to increase office options in reduced Earth track. As commercial providers pay attention to supplying human space transportation services and also destinations as aspect of a strong reduced The planet track economic climate, NASA has the capacity to concentrate additional of its own resources on deeper space objectives to the Moon as well as Mars.Acquire cutting headlines, photos as well as components coming from the spaceport station on the place blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More concerning 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.