.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is offered for limited interview opportunities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming mission to the International Spaceport Station in September.The digital job interviews are going to flow survive on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and also the company's website. Find out how to stream NASA+ with a range of platforms consisting of social networks.Interested media have to provide a demand zero later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio will definitely spend around 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory prior to returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025.During his attend track, Pettit will definitely perform medical examinations as well as modern technology demonstrations to aid prepare the staff for potential area purposes and provide advantages to people in the world. Pettit will participate in numerous of the numerous practices happening during his goal, consisting of studying how spaceflight has an effect on blood clot, carrying on tests of modern technology to make individual stalk cells in space, and also adding his distinct photography abilities to the long-running Workers Earth Observations research of how Planet is actually transforming eventually.NASA selected Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A veteran of 3 spaceflights, he has actually supported essential advancements in modern technology and exhibitions for human area exploration. He acted as a scientific research police officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, functioned the robot upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and also acted as a flight developer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times in space and also administered pair of spacewalks totting 13 hrs and also 17 minutes.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps a bachelor's level in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon State Educational Institution, Corvallis, and a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering coming from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Before his occupation with NASA, Pettit operated as a personnel scientist at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than twenty years, human beings have actually stayed as well as functioned regularly aboard the International Space Station, evolving technology, and also bring in analysis advancements that are actually not feasible in the world. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend and also beat the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to expand office options in low Planet track. As office business pay attention to offering human room transportation solutions as well as locations as component of a strong reduced Planet orbit economy, NASA has the ability to concentrate more of its resources on deeper room purposes to the Moon and also Mars.Obtain breaking off headlines, images and also features from the space station on the station blog post, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more about International Space Station research study 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.