.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is readily available for restricted interview opportunities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming goal to the International Spaceport Station in September.The online interviews will definitely flow live on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and the agency's website. Find out how to flow NASA+ with an assortment of systems featuring social media sites.Interested media must send an ask for zero behind 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The trio will spend roughly 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory prior to going back to Planet in the spring of 2025.During the course of his time in orbit, Pettit is going to carry out clinical investigations as well as technology presentations to aid prep the crew for potential area purposes and deliver benefits to people in the world. Pettit is going to join several of the dozens experiments taking place throughout his mission, featuring examining just how spaceflight affects blood clotting, proceeding exams of modern technology to make human stalk cells in space, and adding his distinct photography capabilities to the long-running Team Earth Observations research of how The planet is altering eventually.NASA decided on Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A pro of 3 spaceflights, he has brought about integral innovations in modern technology and also exhibitions for individual space exploration. He acted as a scientific research officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, worked the automated upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and functioned as a trip developer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times in space and also performed 2 spacewalks completing thirteen hrs and 17 mins.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon Condition Educational Institution, Corvallis, and a doctoral level in Chemical Design from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his profession along with NASA, Pettit worked as a personnel researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For more than 20 years, people have stayed and also functioned constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating technology, and bring in investigation developments that are actually not achievable on Earth. The station is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to know and get rid of the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to expand commercial possibilities in low Planet track. As office business pay attention to supplying individual space transit services as well as destinations as aspect of a durable low Earth track economic climate, NASA manages to focus more of its own information on deep room goals to the Moon and Mars.Obtain cutting news, images and also components coming from the space station on the station blog post, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station research study and functions 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.