.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually readily available for minimal interview opportunities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming purpose to the International Space Station in September.The online interviews will stream survive on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, as well as the organization's website. Discover exactly how to stream NASA+ through a range of systems consisting of social networking sites.Interested media need to send a demand zero later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit is going to release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The trio is going to devote roughly six months aboard the orbital lab just before going back to The planet in the spring season of 2025.Throughout his attend orbit, Pettit will carry out clinical investigations and also modern technology demonstrations to assist ready the crew for potential space purposes and also provide advantages to folks on Earth. Pettit will participate in numerous of the dozens experiments taking place during the course of his objective, including researching just how spaceflight influences blood clot, proceeding exams of modern technology to create human stem cells precede, and also providing his one-of-a-kind digital photography capabilities to the long-running Team The planet Observations research study of exactly how Planet is altering as time go on.NASA selected Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A pro of 3 spaceflights, he has added to integral developments in technology and exhibitions for human space exploration. He acted as a science policeman for Expedition 6 in 2003, worked the robot upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and also functioned as a trip developer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days precede and also administered 2 spacewalks completing 13 hours and 17 moments.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Design coming from Oregon Condition College, Corvallis, and a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Before his profession with NASA, Pettit operated as a personnel researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than twenty years, human beings have stayed and functioned constantly aboard the International Space Station, accelerating technology, and bring in investigation innovations that are actually not achievable on Earth. The station is actually a vital testbed for NASA to comprehend and get rid of the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to increase office possibilities in low Planet orbit. As commercial providers concentrate on offering individual area transport services and also destinations as part of a sturdy reduced Planet orbit economic condition, NASA manages to focus even more of its information on deep area goals to the Moon as well as Mars.Acquire breaking off headlines, photos and attributes from the space station on the place blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More about International Space Station investigation and procedures 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.