.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is on call for limited meeting opportunities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming purpose to the International Spaceport Station in September.The online interviews will certainly stream live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, and the company's website. Find out exactly how to stream NASA+ through an assortment of platforms consisting of social networking sites.Fascinated media have to provide a request absolutely no behind 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio will spend approximately six months aboard the orbital lab prior to returning to Planet in the spring of 2025.In the course of his time in track, Pettit will certainly conduct scientific examinations and innovation exhibitions to assist prepare the staff for potential space objectives and also provide perks to people in the world. Pettit is going to take part in several of the dozens experiments taking place during his objective, featuring analyzing exactly how spaceflight impacts blood clot, proceeding examinations of modern technology to generate individual stem tissues precede, and also adding his distinct digital photography abilities to the long-running Crew The planet Reviews study of how The planet is actually changing gradually.NASA picked Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A veteran of 3 spaceflights, he has actually added to essential developments in innovation and also presentations for human space exploration. He functioned as a science officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, functioned the automated upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and also acted as an air travel developer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times in space and performed pair of spacewalks totting 13 hours and also 17 minutes.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, and a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his profession along with NASA, Pettit worked as a team scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than two decades, people have stayed as well as operated continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating scientific knowledge, and also making analysis developments that are actually certainly not feasible in the world. The place is an essential testbed for NASA to know as well as get over the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to broaden commercial opportunities in reduced Earth track. As commercial providers pay attention to delivering individual space transit solutions and also places as part of a robust low Earth track economic climate, NASA has the ability to concentrate more of its resources on deep room purposes to the Moon and also Mars.Obtain breaking updates, pictures and also attributes coming from the spaceport station on the place blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More regarding International Spaceport station research and also functions 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.