.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is actually on call for limited interview chances beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming objective to the International Space Station in September.The online job interviews will definitely flow survive NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and also the company's web site. Discover just how to stream NASA+ by means of a range of systems including social media sites.Interested media need to submit a demand 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 launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The triad will devote about 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory before going back to Planet in the spring season of 2025.Throughout his attend orbit, Pettit is going to perform medical investigations as well as technology demos to assist ready the team for potential area missions and deliver advantages to individuals on Earth. Pettit is going to join several of the numerous experiments taking place during his objective, including studying exactly how spaceflight influences blood clotting, proceeding exams of modern technology to create human stalk cells in space, and also providing his one-of-a-kind photography skills to the long-running Staff The planet Monitorings research study of how The planet is changing in time.NASA picked Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A veteran of three spaceflights, he has actually brought about indispensable improvements in technology and also demos for individual space exploration. He acted as a scientific research policeman for Expedition 6 in 2003, operated the robot upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and also worked as a tour engineer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times precede and also administered two spacewalks totaling thirteen hrs and also 17 moments.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds a bachelor's level in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Before his profession with NASA, Pettit operated as a personnel expert at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than 20 years, humans have resided as well as operated continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing scientific knowledge, and creating research advancements that are not feasible on Earth. The station is actually an essential testbed for NASA to recognize and overcome the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to increase industrial opportunities in reduced Earth track. As office providers pay attention to delivering human area transportation services and also locations as portion of a strong reduced Earth track economic condition, NASA manages to focus more of its own information on deeper space missions to the Moon and also Mars.Acquire breaking off updates, images and features coming from the spaceport station on the station weblog, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more about International Space Station study and also operations 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.