.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is actually offered for restricted meeting chances starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.The virtual job interviews will definitely stream survive on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, as well as the company's website. Find out exactly how to stream NASA+ via a wide array of systems consisting of social media sites.Fascinated media have to send a request zero 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 is going to introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio is going to devote roughly six months aboard the orbital laboratory prior to coming back to Earth in the springtime of 2025.Throughout his attend orbit, Pettit will definitely conduct scientific examinations and innovation exhibitions to aid ready the workers for future room purposes as well as provide perks to individuals on Earth. Pettit will definitely join many of the thousands of practices happening during his mission, including studying how spaceflight influences blood clot, continuing exams of modern technology to make individual stem cells precede, and contributing his unique digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Staff Earth Observations research study of how The planet is changing with time.NASA decided on Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A pro of 3 spaceflights, he has actually contributed to indispensable advancements in innovation as well as exhibitions for individual room expedition. He worked as a science officer for Exploration 6 in 2003, operated the robotic arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, as well as acted as a trip designer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times in space and performed two spacewalks completing thirteen hrs and 17 minutes.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's level in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon State University, Corvallis, and a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his occupation along with NASA, Pettit worked as a workers scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than twenty years, people have resided and also functioned regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing technology, and making study developments that are not achievable in the world. The place is a critical testbed for NASA to understand and also get over the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend business possibilities in low Earth track. As commercial business pay attention to giving human area transit solutions and destinations as part of a sturdy reduced Planet track economic climate, NASA is able to center additional of its information on deep-seated area missions to the Moon as well as Mars.Get breaking off updates, pictures and also components coming from the space station on the station blog post, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More about International Space 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.