.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is accessible for restricted interview possibilities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.The virtual interviews will definitely stream survive NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, as well as the company's website. Find out how to stream NASA+ by means of a wide array of systems featuring social networks.Appealed to media must submit an ask for no behind 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will certainly release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The triad will definitely devote about six months aboard the periodic laboratory before returning to Earth in the spring of 2025.Throughout his attend track, Pettit will definitely conduct scientific examinations and innovation exhibitions to aid ready the staff for potential area goals as well as give benefits to individuals in the world. Pettit will join several of the manies practices occurring during his mission, consisting of researching just how spaceflight impacts blood clot, carrying on exams of technology to make individual stem tissues precede, and contributing his special digital photography skills to the long-running Staff The planet Observations research study of how Planet is altering eventually.NASA decided on Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. An expert of 3 spaceflights, he has actually contributed to important innovations in modern technology and also demonstrations for human room exploration. He served as a science policeman for Exploration 6 in 2003, worked the robotic upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and also functioned as an air travel engineer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days precede and also carried out pair of spacewalks completing thirteen hrs and also 17 mins.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, and also a doctoral degree in Chemical Design from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his profession along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a staff expert at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For greater than 20 years, people have actually lived and also operated continually aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing accurate knowledge, and also making investigation innovations that are actually not feasible in the world. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to recognize as well as beat the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to extend office options in low Earth track. As industrial business pay attention to supplying human room transportation companies and locations as component of a sturdy reduced The planet track economic condition, NASA is able to center even more of its information on deeper space purposes to the Moon as well as Mars.Acquire breaking off information, photos as well as components coming from the space station on the station weblog, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More about International Spaceport station research study as well as 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.