.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is accessible for minimal meeting options starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to cover his upcoming purpose to the International Spaceport Station in September.The digital interviews will definitely flow reside on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and the firm's site. Know just how to flow NASA+ by means of a range of systems consisting of social networking sites.Appealed to media must send an ask for no later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio will invest roughly 6 months aboard the orbital lab before going back to Earth in the spring of 2025.In the course of his attend track, Pettit will definitely carry out clinical investigations and also innovation presentations to help ready the team for future area objectives and offer perks to people on Earth. Pettit will definitely participate in numerous of the thousands of experiments happening throughout his goal, including analyzing just how spaceflight impacts blood clot, continuing examinations of modern technology to generate human stalk tissues precede, and also providing his one-of-a-kind digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Workers The planet Monitorings study of exactly how Planet is actually altering eventually.NASA picked Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A pro of 3 spaceflights, he has actually brought about indispensable advancements in technology and also presentations for human room expedition. He functioned as a science police officer for Trip 6 in 2003, operated the robotic upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and served as a flight designer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times in space and carried out two spacewalks totting 13 hrs and 17 mins.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps a bachelor's level in Chemical Engineering from Oregon Condition Educational Institution, Corvallis, and also a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his profession along with NASA, Pettit worked as a staff researcher at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For greater than two decades, humans have stayed as well as worked consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing accurate knowledge, and bring in research study discoveries that are not achievable in the world. The station is an important testbed for NASA to know and eliminate the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to expand commercial opportunities in reduced The planet track. As business firms focus on providing human room transport services and also places as portion of a strong reduced Earth orbit economic condition, NASA is able to concentrate more of its resources on deeper area purposes to the Moon and also Mars.Get breaking off news, graphics as well as functions from the space station on the station blog, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station study as well as 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.