.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is actually offered for minimal meeting chances beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to cover his upcoming mission to the International Spaceport Station in September.The online interviews are going to stream live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, and also the organization's website. Find out just how to stream NASA+ with a wide array of systems featuring social media.Intrigued media must submit a demand absolutely no later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will certainly introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio will certainly devote approximately 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory before returning to Planet in the springtime of 2025.During the course of his attend orbit, Pettit will definitely perform clinical examinations and also technology demos to help ready the team for future space purposes as well as offer benefits to people in the world. Pettit will certainly join numerous of the dozens practices happening in the course of his goal, including researching just how spaceflight influences blood clot, carrying on tests of technology to create human stalk tissues in space, as well as providing his unique photography skills to the long-running Team Planet Observations study of just how The planet is actually transforming over time.NASA picked Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A professional of 3 spaceflights, he has brought about integral innovations in modern technology and demonstrations for human space expedition. He served as a science policeman for Expedition 6 in 2003, operated the robotic upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, as well as served as a trip developer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times precede as well as conducted 2 spacewalks totaling 13 hrs as well as 17 minutes.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's level in Chemical Design coming from Oregon Condition College, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his job with NASA, Pettit functioned as a personnel researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For greater than 20 years, human beings have lived and functioned constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing technology, and also bring in research study innovations that are certainly not feasible on Earth. The station is a vital testbed for NASA to recognize as well as eliminate the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend commercial possibilities in reduced The planet orbit. As commercial providers concentrate on supplying human area transport services and locations as part of a sturdy low Earth track economic climate, NASA is able to focus additional of its own resources on deep room purposes to the Moon and Mars.Get cutting news, pictures and also components from the spaceport station on the station weblog, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Discover More concerning International Space Station investigation as well as 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.