.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually available for minimal job interview chances beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to cover his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.The digital job interviews will stream reside on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, and also the organization's site. Learn how to stream NASA+ through a range of platforms featuring social networks.Interested media need to provide a demand zero beyond 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The triad is going to devote about 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory just before going back to Earth in the spring season of 2025.During his attend orbit, Pettit is going to conduct scientific examinations as well as innovation demonstrations to help ready the staff for potential area objectives and deliver advantages to people on Earth. Pettit will certainly take part in several of the dozens experiments happening during the course of his objective, featuring researching just how spaceflight has an effect on blood clot, proceeding examinations of technology to create human stalk tissues in space, and also providing his distinct digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Staff Earth Observations research study of just how The planet is actually altering with time.NASA selected Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. An expert of 3 spaceflights, he has actually added to important developments in innovation and also demos for individual space expedition. He acted as a science policeman for Exploration 6 in 2003, ran the automated arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and served as a flight designer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times precede and also conducted pair of spacewalks totaling 13 hrs as well as 17 mins.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Design coming from Oregon State University, Corvallis, and a doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his occupation along with NASA, Pettit worked as a personnel researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For more than two decades, people have resided and operated constantly aboard the International Space Station, accelerating technology, and also making study innovations that are actually not possible in the world. The station is an important testbed for NASA to know and conquer the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to increase commercial options in low The planet track. As industrial firms pay attention to supplying individual room transportation services as well as destinations as portion of a robust low The planet orbit economic climate, NASA manages to focus additional of its sources on deep-seated space purposes to the Moon and also Mars.Obtain cutting information, images and also functions from the spaceport station on the place blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station investigation and functions 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.