.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is available for limited interview possibilities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.The virtual interviews will flow survive on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, and the company's site. Know exactly how to stream NASA+ via an assortment of systems consisting of social networking sites.Fascinated media should send a request 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 even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The triad will definitely devote around 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory just before returning to Earth in the spring of 2025.Throughout his time in track, Pettit will certainly conduct scientific inspections as well as innovation demos to assist ready the staff for potential room purposes and supply advantages to folks on Earth. Pettit is going to join numerous of the manies practices taking place during his purpose, including studying how spaceflight influences blood clot, proceeding tests of innovation to create individual stalk tissues precede, and adding his one-of-a-kind digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Workers The planet Monitorings research study of how Planet is actually altering in time.NASA picked Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A professional of three spaceflights, he has resulted in integral innovations in innovation and also exhibitions for individual room exploration. He served as a scientific research policeman for Expedition 6 in 2003, functioned the robotic arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and also worked as a tour engineer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times precede as well as administered two spacewalks amounting to 13 hrs and 17 mins.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores an undergraduate's level in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon Condition College, Corvallis, and a doctoral degree in Chemical Design coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Before his profession with NASA, Pettit worked as a personnel scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than twenty years, people have stayed as well as functioned continually aboard the International Space Station, evolving scientific knowledge, as well as creating study advancements that are actually not possible in the world. The place is a vital testbed for NASA to comprehend and conquer the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and also to broaden office opportunities in low Planet orbit. As business business focus on providing human space transit companies and also places as aspect of a sturdy low Earth orbit economy, NASA is able to concentrate additional of its own resources on deep-seated space purposes to the Moon and Mars.Acquire breaking headlines, graphics as well as components from the spaceport station on the station weblog, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More regarding International Spaceport station study as well as procedures 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.