.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is offered for limited interview chances starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.The virtual meetings will definitely stream reside on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and the firm's website. Find out exactly how to stream NASA+ by means of a variety of platforms including social media sites.Excited media need to provide a demand absolutely no later than 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 release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio will certainly spend around 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory just before going back to Planet in the spring of 2025.During his time in track, Pettit will perform clinical inspections and also innovation demonstrations to aid prep the workers for future space purposes as well as provide perks to folks on Earth. Pettit will certainly take part in numerous of the hundreds of practices occurring during the course of his objective, including researching how spaceflight influences blood clotting, carrying on tests of technology to make individual stem cells in space, as well as adding his unique digital photography abilities to the long-running Crew Planet Reviews research study of exactly how Earth is actually altering eventually.NASA chose Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. An expert of 3 spaceflights, he has helped in integral innovations in technology as well as demos for human space expedition. He functioned as a science officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, operated the robot upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and served as a flight engineer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times precede as well as carried out pair of spacewalks completing thirteen hrs as well as 17 mins.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Design coming from Oregon Condition Educational Institution, Corvallis, and a doctoral degree in Chemical Design from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his career along with NASA, Pettit worked as a personnel expert at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than 20 years, people have actually stayed as well as worked consistently aboard the International Space Station, advancing accurate knowledge, and creating research study discoveries that are actually not achievable on Earth. The station is an important testbed for NASA to recognize as well as get rid of the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow commercial options in low The planet orbit. As office companies concentrate on providing human room transit solutions and also places as component of a durable low Planet track economic condition, NASA has the capacity to focus more of its sources on deep-seated room purposes to the Moon and also Mars.Receive breaking off headlines, images as well as features coming from the space station on the place blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station analysis and also procedures 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.