.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is readily available for limited interview opportunities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming objective to the International Spaceport Station in September.The online meetings are going to flow survive on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and the firm's web site. Find out how to stream NASA+ with an assortment of platforms consisting of social media.Excited media have to submit an ask for zero behind 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 certainly launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad will definitely devote roughly six months aboard the periodic lab before coming back to The planet in the spring of 2025.During his attend track, Pettit will definitely conduct medical examinations as well as technology presentations to help prep the team for future room purposes and also give perks to people on Earth. Pettit will definitely participate in numerous of the thousands of practices occurring in the course of his purpose, featuring examining just how spaceflight has an effect on blood clot, continuing examinations of technology to produce individual stem cells in space, as well as contributing his unique digital photography skills to the long-running Crew Planet Monitorings research study of how The planet is transforming in time.NASA chose Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A pro of three spaceflights, he has brought about essential advancements in innovation and also presentations for individual area expedition. He worked as a science policeman for Exploration 6 in 2003, functioned the automated upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, as well as served as a flight engineer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days precede as well as performed pair of spacewalks totting thirteen hrs and 17 mins.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's level in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University, Corvallis, and also a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his profession with NASA, Pettit worked as a staff expert at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than 20 years, humans have actually stayed as well as functioned regularly aboard the International Space Station, progressing technology, and also making investigation innovations that are not possible on Earth. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to know and get rid of the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to broaden commercial opportunities in low The planet orbit. As office providers pay attention to giving individual room transport solutions and also destinations as part of a durable low Planet orbit economy, NASA manages to focus additional of its resources on deep space purposes to the Moon and also Mars.Obtain breaking off headlines, graphics as well as components coming from the spaceport station on the station blog, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More regarding International Space Station investigation and also functions 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.