.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is on call for restricted meeting options starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming purpose to the International Spaceport Station in September.The online interviews are going to flow survive on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and the agency's website. Learn just how to stream NASA+ with a variety of systems featuring social media sites.Excited media have to submit an ask for absolutely no beyond 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 definitely launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio will certainly invest roughly 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory prior to coming back to Planet in the springtime of 2025.In the course of his attend track, Pettit will carry out medical investigations and also innovation demos to help prepare the team for potential area goals and also supply perks to individuals in the world. Pettit will join many of the manies experiments happening in the course of his mission, consisting of analyzing how spaceflight affects blood clot, carrying on tests of innovation to produce human stem cells in space, and providing his special digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Crew Earth Observations research of just how The planet is actually altering gradually.NASA chose Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A veteran of 3 spaceflights, he has added to essential improvements in innovation and also exhibitions for human room exploration. He worked as a science officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, operated the robotic upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, as well as acted as an air travel engineer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times in space and conducted two spacewalks amounting to thirteen hrs and 17 mins.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds a bachelor's level in Chemical Design from Oregon Condition Educational Institution, Corvallis, and a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Before his profession with NASA, Pettit functioned as a team researcher at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For greater than 20 years, people have resided and also functioned continually aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing technology, as well as making analysis breakthroughs that are not feasible on Earth. The station is a critical testbed for NASA to comprehend and also eliminate the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden business opportunities in reduced Earth track. As business firms focus on offering individual space transport companies and locations as part of a sturdy low Earth track economy, NASA has the capacity to focus additional of its information on deeper room missions to the Moon and Mars.Obtain breaking off information, images as well as features from the space station on the station blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More concerning International Spaceport station investigation as well as 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.