.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually readily available for minimal job interview options starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.The online job interviews will definitely flow survive on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, and also the organization's website. Know how to flow NASA+ via a wide array of systems consisting of social networking sites.Interested media should send an ask for no 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 definitely launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio will spend around 6 months aboard the orbital lab prior to going back to Earth in the spring of 2025.During the course of his attend track, Pettit will certainly perform medical inspections as well as innovation demos to assist prep the team for potential space missions and also give advantages to individuals in the world. Pettit is going to participate in several of the numerous experiments taking place throughout his objective, including examining just how spaceflight impacts blood clot, continuing examinations of technology to generate individual stalk tissues in space, and providing his unique photography capabilities to the long-running Team Planet Reviews research study of just how The planet is actually modifying as time go on.NASA selected Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A pro of 3 spaceflights, he has actually added to important innovations in modern technology as well as demos for human area expedition. He functioned as a scientific research policeman for Exploration 6 in 2003, operated the robot arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, as well as functioned as a flight developer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times precede as well as performed two spacewalks totaling thirteen hrs as well as 17 mins.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Engineering from Oregon Condition College, Corvallis, and a doctorate level in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his job with NASA, Pettit operated as a staff researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than two decades, humans have actually stayed and worked constantly aboard the International Space Station, advancing technology, as well as creating research advancements that are actually not possible in the world. The station is actually a critical testbed for NASA to understand as well as conquer the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to grow office chances in low The planet track. As commercial providers concentrate on offering human space transit solutions and locations as aspect of a sturdy low Planet track economic condition, NASA manages to center even more of its resources on deep-seated room goals to the Moon as well as Mars.Get breaking headlines, images and components coming from the spaceport station on the station blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More about International Space Station study 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.