.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is accessible for restricted interview chances beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to cover his upcoming purpose to the International Space Station in September.The online job interviews will certainly flow survive NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and also the company's internet site. Find out just how to stream NASA+ through a variety of systems featuring social media sites.Fascinated media need to submit an ask for no later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will certainly launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The triad will certainly spend roughly 6 months aboard the orbital lab before going back to Earth in the spring season of 2025.During the course of his time in track, Pettit will conduct scientific investigations as well as modern technology demonstrations to aid prepare the team for potential room objectives as well as supply advantages to folks on Earth. Pettit will participate in several of the manies practices happening during the course of his objective, consisting of studying how spaceflight influences blood clotting, carrying on tests of technology to make individual stalk tissues precede, and providing his special digital photography capabilities to the long-running Team The planet Monitorings research of how The planet is actually altering with time.NASA decided on Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A veteran of three spaceflights, he has actually contributed to indispensable innovations in innovation as well as demos for individual area exploration. He acted as a science policeman for Exploration 6 in 2003, operated the robot upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and also worked as a trip developer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times precede as well as performed two spacewalks totting thirteen hours and 17 mins.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's level in Chemical Design from Oregon State Educational Institution, Corvallis, as well as a doctorate level in Chemical Engineering coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Before his occupation along with NASA, Pettit worked as a personnel scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than two decades, human beings have stayed and functioned constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating scientific knowledge, and also creating analysis discoveries that are actually not feasible on Earth. The place is actually an important testbed for NASA to know and also get rid of the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to expand commercial possibilities in reduced Planet track. As office companies focus on delivering human area transit companies as well as locations as component of a robust low Planet track economic situation, NASA manages to concentrate more of its resources on deep space missions to the Moon and also Mars.Obtain breaking information, graphics and also components coming from the space station on the place weblog, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more regarding International Space Station analysis and also functions 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.