.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is available for restricted interview chances beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming objective to the International Spaceport Station in September.The digital meetings will flow survive on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and also the company's web site. Learn exactly how to flow NASA+ via a range of platforms featuring social media sites.Intrigued media should send a request no beyond 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 certainly introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad will certainly spend approximately 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory before going back to Earth in the spring season of 2025.During the course of his attend orbit, Pettit will administer medical investigations and innovation exhibitions to help prep the team for potential area purposes as well as deliver benefits to individuals in the world. Pettit is going to take part in numerous of the dozens practices taking place during his mission, including researching exactly how spaceflight influences blood clot, carrying on tests of modern technology to create human stem cells in space, and also providing his special digital photography capabilities to the long-running Workers The planet Observations study of how Earth is actually transforming with time.NASA selected Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A veteran of 3 spaceflights, he has actually supported important developments in modern technology as well as presentations for individual room expedition. He worked as a scientific research policeman for Exploration 6 in 2003, operated the robot upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and also acted as an air travel developer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days in space and also conducted pair of spacewalks totting 13 hrs and also 17 mins.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's level in Chemical Design from Oregon Condition Educational Institution, Corvallis, and a doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his profession with NASA, Pettit operated as a team expert at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For greater than two decades, humans have lived as well as functioned regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating scientific knowledge, and also bring in research study advances that are certainly not feasible on Earth. The station is actually an important testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as conquer the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to extend commercial opportunities in reduced Earth orbit. As office business pay attention to providing individual area transport services as well as places as portion of a strong reduced The planet orbit economic situation, NASA has the capacity to focus more of its own sources on deeper area goals to the Moon as well as Mars.Obtain breaking off information, pictures as well as attributes coming from the spaceport station on the station blog post, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More concerning International Spaceport station investigation as well as 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.