.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is accessible for restricted interview possibilities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming purpose to the International Spaceport Station in September.The virtual interviews will stream survive NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and also the company's internet site. Discover just how to stream NASA+ through a variety of systems consisting of social media sites.Fascinated media need to provide a demand no beyond 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio is going to invest about 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory prior to coming back to The planet in the spring season of 2025.Throughout his time in track, Pettit will conduct scientific inspections and also technology demonstrations to assist prepare the team for future room missions and also give advantages to folks on Earth. Pettit will certainly join many of the hundreds of experiments occurring in the course of his mission, including analyzing just how spaceflight influences blood clotting, continuing tests of technology to create human stalk cells in space, and contributing his distinct photography skill-sets to the long-running Staff Earth Monitorings research of exactly how Earth is actually altering eventually.NASA selected Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A pro of three spaceflights, he has supported essential innovations in technology as well as presentations for individual room exploration. He acted as a science officer for Exploration 6 in 2003, operated the robot arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, as well as functioned as a tour engineer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days in space as well as performed two spacewalks totting 13 hours as well as 17 minutes.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's level in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon Condition College, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his occupation with NASA, Pettit operated as a workers scientist at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For much more than two decades, human beings have actually stayed and also worked constantly aboard the International Space Station, evolving scientific knowledge, and bring in study advances that are not achievable on Earth. The place is a crucial testbed for NASA to know as well as get over the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase office chances in reduced Planet track. As commercial firms concentrate on providing human area transport services and also places as portion of a sturdy reduced Earth track economy, NASA has the ability to center additional of its resources on deep space purposes to the Moon and also Mars.Get breaking off headlines, pictures and components coming from the space station on the station weblog, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station research 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.