.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is readily available for minimal interview options starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming purpose to the International Space Station in September.The virtual meetings will flow survive on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, and also the agency's website. Learn how to stream NASA+ by means of a range of systems featuring social networking sites.Excited media have to submit an ask for 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 will definitely introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The triad will definitely invest about 6 months aboard the orbital lab just before returning to The planet in the springtime of 2025.Throughout his attend track, Pettit will certainly conduct scientific inspections and also modern technology exhibitions to aid ready the crew for potential space purposes as well as deliver benefits to folks in the world. Pettit will definitely take part in several of the hundreds of practices occurring during his objective, including researching just how spaceflight has an effect on blood clotting, proceeding examinations of modern technology to produce human stalk tissues precede, and contributing his distinct photography skill-sets to the long-running Workers Earth Observations research of just how The planet is actually altering with time.NASA selected Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A pro of three spaceflights, he has actually brought about integral improvements in modern technology and also demos for individual room exploration. He worked as a science policeman for Trip 6 in 2003, functioned the robot arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, as well as worked as a trip designer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times precede and carried out pair of spacewalks totting 13 hrs as well as 17 minutes.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon Condition College, Corvallis, and a doctorate degree in Chemical Design from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his job along with NASA, Pettit worked as a personnel expert at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than two decades, human beings have actually resided and operated constantly aboard the International Space Station, accelerating accurate knowledge, as well as bring in analysis innovations that are actually certainly not achievable on Earth. The station is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to comprehend and eliminate the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to broaden office opportunities in reduced The planet orbit. As office business pay attention to providing human area transport companies and also places as component of a durable reduced Planet orbit economic climate, NASA has the capacity to concentrate more of its own resources on deeper area goals to the Moon and Mars.Receive cutting news, images and attributes coming from the space station on the station blog post, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More about International Space Station investigation and also 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.