.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is on call for limited interview chances beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to cover his upcoming goal to the International Spaceport Station in September.The virtual job interviews are going to flow survive on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and also the organization's web site. Know exactly how to stream NASA+ with a selection of systems featuring social media sites.Fascinated media should send a request no behind 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The trio is going to invest around 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory before returning to Earth in the spring of 2025.During his attend orbit, Pettit will carry out scientific examinations and modern technology demonstrations to help ready the team for future space goals as well as supply benefits to people on Earth. Pettit will definitely join many of the numerous practices taking place in the course of his goal, including researching how spaceflight has an effect on blood clot, carrying on examinations of technology to generate individual stalk tissues precede, and also providing his one-of-a-kind digital photography skills to the long-running Crew Planet Observations study of exactly how Planet is actually modifying in time.NASA chose Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. An expert of three spaceflights, he has brought about essential developments in technology and also demos for human room exploration. He served as a scientific research policeman for Expedition 6 in 2003, operated the robot upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, and functioned as a trip developer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times in space and also performed 2 spacewalks totting thirteen hrs and also 17 minutes.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds an undergraduate's level in Chemical Design from Oregon Condition Educational Institution, Corvallis, and also a doctorate level in Chemical Design from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Before his profession with NASA, Pettit worked as a workers researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For much more than twenty years, human beings have resided as well as worked continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving scientific knowledge, and also bring in research study advancements that are actually certainly not possible in the world. The station is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to know and also overcome the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to grow industrial possibilities in low The planet orbit. As commercial firms focus on supplying human room transit solutions as well as locations as part of a robust reduced Earth orbit economic condition, NASA has the ability to focus even more of its own resources on deeper area missions to the Moon and also Mars.Receive cutting updates, images as well as features coming from the space station on the station blog post, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More about International Space Station research 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.