.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually available for restricted meeting chances beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming goal to the International Spaceport Station in September.The online interviews will certainly stream survive NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and also the organization's web site. Know how to flow NASA+ through an assortment of platforms featuring social networking sites.Fascinated media must send a demand zero 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 launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The triad will certainly spend roughly 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory prior to going back to Earth in the springtime of 2025.During the course of his attend orbit, Pettit will definitely carry out scientific investigations and modern technology demonstrations to aid prep the team for future room goals and also supply advantages to people on Earth. Pettit will definitely join many of the numerous experiments occurring during his mission, including examining just how spaceflight affects blood clot, continuing tests of innovation to make individual stalk cells in space, and also adding his distinct digital photography abilities to the long-running Crew Planet Monitorings research of just how The planet is actually modifying as time go on.NASA picked Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A veteran of 3 spaceflights, he has helped in indispensable developments in innovation and also demonstrations for human room expedition. He acted as a scientific research policeman for Exploration 6 in 2003, worked the robot upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, as well as acted as a flight designer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days precede and also performed pair of spacewalks amounting to 13 hrs and also 17 moments.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon State College, Corvallis, and a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his profession along with NASA, Pettit worked as a personnel scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than two decades, humans have actually lived and operated regularly aboard the International Space Station, evolving accurate knowledge, and making investigation advancements that are actually certainly not possible in the world. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to know and get rid of the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to increase office chances in low Earth track. As office companies pay attention to offering individual room transport services as well as locations as portion of a robust reduced Planet track economic situation, NASA is able to concentrate additional of its own resources on deep room purposes to the Moon and also Mars.Obtain breaking headlines, graphics and also components coming from the space station on the station blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more about International Spaceport station investigation and also 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.