.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually accessible for limited meeting chances starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to cover his upcoming goal to the International Spaceport Station in September.The virtual interviews will definitely flow live on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, as well as the company's website. Know just how to flow NASA+ by means of an assortment of platforms featuring social media.Fascinated media should provide an ask for zero later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio will spend about six months aboard the periodic research laboratory just before returning to The planet in the springtime of 2025.During the course of his time in track, Pettit will certainly conduct medical examinations as well as modern technology demonstrations to assist prepare the workers for potential space purposes and give advantages to folks in the world. Pettit will certainly join numerous of the thousands of experiments happening during his mission, including studying how spaceflight has an effect on blood clotting, carrying on tests of modern technology to create individual stem tissues in space, and adding his distinct digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Team Earth Monitorings research study of just how Planet is actually altering in time.NASA selected Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. An expert of 3 spaceflights, he has supported indispensable developments in modern technology and also exhibitions for human room expedition. He acted as a science police officer for Trip 6 in 2003, functioned the robotic arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and served as a trip developer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times precede and performed 2 spacewalks totting thirteen hours and also 17 moments.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps a bachelor's degree in Chemical Design from Oregon State University, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his occupation along with NASA, Pettit worked as a staff researcher at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than twenty years, people have resided as well as worked constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating accurate knowledge, and also making study advancements that are not possible in the world. The place is an important testbed for NASA to recognize as well as beat the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to expand office possibilities in low Planet track. As industrial providers pay attention to supplying individual space transit services as well as locations as portion of a robust low The planet orbit economic climate, NASA has the capacity to focus additional of its information on deep space goals to the Moon and also Mars.Receive cutting headlines, photos and components from the spaceport station on the place weblog, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more regarding International Space Station investigation as well as operations 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.