.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually readily available for restricted interview chances beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to cover his upcoming objective to the International Space Station in September.The virtual interviews are going to flow live on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and also the organization's web site. Find out how to flow NASA+ via a wide array of systems featuring social networks.Fascinated media should provide a demand zero 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 release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio will spend approximately six months aboard the periodic research laboratory just before going back to The planet in the springtime of 2025.During the course of his attend track, Pettit will certainly conduct clinical investigations and also modern technology demos to assist prep the crew for future room purposes and also supply perks to individuals in the world. Pettit will join many of the numerous practices happening in the course of his objective, consisting of researching just how spaceflight impacts blood clotting, continuing exams of technology to generate individual stem cells precede, and also contributing his special photography capabilities to the long-running Staff Earth Monitorings research study of just how Planet is actually transforming in time.NASA picked Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A pro of three spaceflights, he has brought about integral developments in modern technology and exhibitions for individual room expedition. He worked as a science police officer for Exploration 6 in 2003, functioned the robot upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and also worked as a trip engineer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days in space and carried out 2 spacewalks totting 13 hours and also 17 moments.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon State Educational Institution, Corvallis, and also a doctorate level in Chemical Design coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his occupation with NASA, Pettit operated as a personnel researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than twenty years, humans have actually lived and operated continually aboard the International Space Station, progressing accurate knowledge, as well as bring in investigation advancements that are certainly not possible in the world. The place is actually a vital testbed for NASA to know and get rid of the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to broaden commercial possibilities in low Planet track. As industrial providers concentrate on giving human room transportation services and locations as aspect of a robust reduced Planet orbit economic situation, NASA has the capacity to concentrate even more of its sources on deep-seated area missions to the Moon as well as Mars.Receive breaking off information, pictures and features coming from the spaceport station on the station blog, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more regarding International Space Station research and 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.