.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually offered for restricted interview possibilities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming mission to the International Spaceport Station in September.The digital meetings will certainly flow live on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and the firm's web site. Discover exactly how to flow NASA+ through a wide array of platforms featuring social media sites.Interested media should send an ask for absolutely no beyond 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio will certainly invest approximately six months aboard the periodic laboratory just before going back to The planet in the springtime of 2025.During the course of his attend track, Pettit is going to carry out medical examinations and also technology presentations to aid prep the workers for future room purposes as well as give benefits to individuals on Earth. Pettit will definitely join several of the thousands of experiments taking place during his purpose, featuring researching just how spaceflight influences blood clot, carrying on examinations of technology to make human stalk cells in space, and providing his unique photography abilities to the long-running Staff Earth Monitorings study of just how Earth is changing as time go on.NASA picked Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A veteran of 3 spaceflights, he has actually contributed to important innovations in modern technology and also demos for individual space expedition. He worked as a science policeman for Expedition 6 in 2003, operated the robot arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, and also worked as a tour developer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times in space and performed 2 spacewalks completing 13 hours and also 17 mins.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon Condition Educational Institution, Corvallis, and also a doctoral degree in Chemical Design coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Before his occupation along with NASA, Pettit worked as a staff expert at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For greater than twenty years, human beings have lived and also functioned continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating scientific knowledge, as well as bring in analysis breakthroughs that are actually not possible in the world. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to understand and get rid of the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to extend business possibilities in low Planet orbit. As business providers focus on giving individual room transport services as well as locations as portion of a durable low The planet orbit economy, NASA manages to focus additional of its information on deep space purposes to the Moon as well as Mars.Obtain cutting headlines, pictures and features from the space station on the place blog, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station investigation and operations 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.