.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is offered for restricted interview chances beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming goal to the International Spaceport Station in September.The virtual interviews will flow reside on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and also the firm's web site. Know how to stream NASA+ with a selection of platforms including social media sites.Intrigued media should submit a request zero 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 definitely release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio is going to invest about six months aboard the periodic laboratory before returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025.During the course of his time in track, Pettit will definitely perform clinical inspections as well as innovation demonstrations to assist ready the crew for potential room missions as well as offer perks to folks in the world. Pettit will participate in several of the numerous practices happening in the course of his objective, featuring studying just how spaceflight affects blood clot, continuing tests of technology to produce individual stem tissues precede, as well as adding his distinct digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Crew Earth Monitorings research study of exactly how The planet is actually modifying in time.NASA decided on Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A veteran of 3 spaceflights, he has actually supported indispensable developments in modern technology and presentations for human space expedition. He worked as a science officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, functioned the automated arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and worked as a tour engineer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days precede and performed pair of spacewalks totting thirteen hrs and also 17 minutes.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's level in Chemical Engineering from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Before his career along with NASA, Pettit operated as a team expert at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For more than two decades, humans have stayed as well as worked continually aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing scientific knowledge, and also making investigation breakthroughs that are actually not achievable in the world. The place is actually an important testbed for NASA to know and beat the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow industrial possibilities in reduced Earth orbit. As business business concentrate on delivering human space transit services as well as locations as aspect of a sturdy low The planet track economy, NASA is able to concentrate additional of its sources on deeper space missions to the Moon and also Mars.Get cutting headlines, images and also attributes from the spaceport station on the place weblog, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More regarding International Space Station study and also procedures 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.