.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is actually on call for restricted interview opportunities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming objective to the International Space Station in September.The virtual meetings will stream survive NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, as well as the firm's site. Find out how to stream NASA+ by means of a range of platforms featuring social networks.Appealed to media must submit a request absolutely no later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad will devote about six months aboard the periodic laboratory just before coming back to The planet in the spring season of 2025.During the course of his attend orbit, Pettit is going to perform clinical inspections as well as modern technology exhibitions to aid ready the staff for potential room purposes as well as give advantages to people in the world. Pettit will participate in many of the thousands of experiments happening in the course of his objective, consisting of analyzing just how spaceflight affects blood clotting, carrying on tests of innovation to generate individual stem cells in space, and adding his special digital photography skills to the long-running Crew The planet Reviews research study of just how Earth is modifying with time.NASA selected Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A veteran of three spaceflights, he has actually contributed to indispensable advancements in modern technology and also demos for individual area exploration. He served as a scientific research police officer for Trip 6 in 2003, functioned the robot upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and acted as a tour designer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times in space as well as carried out two spacewalks totting 13 hours and 17 minutes.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's level in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon State College, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Before his job along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a staff expert at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For more than twenty years, human beings have stayed as well as worked constantly aboard the International Space Station, advancing accurate knowledge, as well as bring in research advances that are not achievable in the world. The station is actually an essential testbed for NASA to recognize and also beat the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to expand business possibilities in low The planet orbit. As office firms pay attention to giving human room transportation companies and also places as part of a strong reduced Earth track economic situation, NASA is able to focus even more of its own resources on deeper room goals to the Moon as well as Mars.Receive breaking off information, graphics and attributes coming from the spaceport station on the station blog post, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More regarding International Spaceport station analysis as well as operations 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.