.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is actually readily available for restricted interview possibilities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming objective to the International Space Station in September.The virtual interviews will certainly stream reside on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and also the company's website. Discover exactly how to flow NASA+ through a range of systems including social networking sites.Excited media must send an ask for no behind 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit is going to introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The trio will devote around six months aboard the orbital laboratory before returning to Planet in the spring of 2025.In the course of his attend track, Pettit will conduct medical investigations and modern technology demonstrations to assist prepare the workers for potential room goals and provide benefits to folks in the world. Pettit will certainly participate in several of the dozens experiments happening in the course of his objective, including researching how spaceflight has an effect on blood clot, proceeding examinations of modern technology to make human stalk tissues precede, and also providing his distinct digital photography capabilities to the long-running Workers Planet Observations research of just how The planet is modifying over time.NASA chose Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A pro of 3 spaceflights, he has actually resulted in essential developments in technology and exhibitions for individual area exploration. He worked as a scientific research policeman for Expedition 6 in 2003, operated the robotic arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and served as a tour developer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days precede and performed two spacewalks completing 13 hrs as well as 17 moments.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds a bachelor's level in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon Condition Educational Institution, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Before his profession along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a staff researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than 20 years, people have resided and also worked constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving accurate knowledge, as well as creating analysis discoveries that are not feasible on Earth. The place is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to understand and also get rid of the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to broaden office possibilities in reduced Earth orbit. As business firms pay attention to supplying individual room transport solutions as well as destinations as aspect of a durable reduced Earth track economic climate, NASA has the capacity to center additional of its own sources on deeper area goals to the Moon as well as Mars.Obtain breaking headlines, photos and features coming from the space station on the station blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More about International Space Station study as well as 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.