.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is accessible for limited meeting chances starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to cover his upcoming objective to the International Space Station in September.The online interviews will definitely stream survive on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, and also the agency's site. Discover how to stream NASA+ with a variety of systems including social networks.Appealed to media have to submit a request zero behind 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad will spend around 6 months aboard the orbital lab before coming back to Planet in the springtime of 2025.During the course of his time in track, Pettit will administer clinical investigations and innovation demonstrations to aid prepare the crew for potential space goals and also give benefits to folks in the world. Pettit will certainly participate in several of the dozens experiments occurring during the course of his purpose, featuring researching just how spaceflight impacts blood clotting, proceeding examinations of technology to generate human stalk tissues in space, and also adding his distinct digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Staff Planet Monitorings research study of how Planet is altering in time.NASA decided on Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A pro of three spaceflights, he has actually helped in integral developments in technology and also presentations for individual space exploration. He functioned as a scientific research officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, worked the robot arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and also functioned as an air travel engineer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days in space and also carried out pair of spacewalks totaling thirteen hrs and 17 mins.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon State College, Corvallis, and also a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his career along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a personnel expert at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than two decades, human beings have lived and operated regularly aboard the International Space Station, evolving technology, and creating study innovations that are certainly not feasible on Earth. The station is an essential testbed for NASA to understand and also get over the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend business options in reduced Planet track. As industrial firms pay attention to giving individual room transport services as well as destinations as component of a strong reduced The planet orbit economic condition, NASA manages to concentrate additional of its own sources on deeper area purposes to the Moon as well as Mars.Acquire cutting news, graphics and also functions coming from the space station on the place blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More about International Spaceport station study 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.