.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is on call for minimal interview opportunities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to cover his upcoming objective to the International Space Station in September.The digital meetings will certainly stream reside on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and also the organization's internet site. Learn how to stream NASA+ by means of a selection of systems featuring social networking sites.Fascinated media have to send an ask for no behind 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The triad will certainly invest about six months aboard the orbital lab prior to coming back to Earth in the springtime of 2025.In the course of his time in orbit, Pettit will definitely conduct scientific investigations as well as modern technology presentations to aid ready the crew for potential area objectives and also give benefits to people in the world. Pettit will certainly take part in several of the numerous practices occurring throughout his objective, featuring studying how spaceflight impacts blood clotting, proceeding exams of technology to make human stalk cells precede, as well as adding his one-of-a-kind photography skills to the long-running Workers Earth Monitorings study of exactly how Earth is actually changing over time.NASA picked Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A pro of three spaceflights, he has actually added to indispensable improvements in modern technology and demonstrations for human space expedition. He acted as a scientific research police officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, functioned the robot upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and also served as a flight developer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days precede as well as administered two spacewalks totting 13 hrs and also 17 moments.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps a bachelor's degree in Chemical Design coming from Oregon Condition College, Corvallis, and a doctorate degree in Chemical Design from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his profession with NASA, Pettit operated as a team scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than 20 years, humans have resided and operated constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing technology, and also making study advances that are certainly not feasible on Earth. The station is a critical testbed for NASA to understand and also get over the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow commercial chances in low Earth track. As commercial firms concentrate on giving individual space transportation solutions and also locations as portion of a robust reduced The planet orbit economic condition, NASA has the capacity to concentrate more of its sources on deeper area goals to the Moon and Mars.Obtain breaking off information, photos and also components from the space station on the station blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more about International Space Station research 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.