.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is accessible for minimal job interview chances starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to cover his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.The online job interviews are going to flow reside on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, as well as the agency's internet site. Know exactly how to stream NASA+ with a range of systems including social media sites.Intrigued media must provide a demand no beyond 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit is going to introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad will invest around six months aboard the periodic lab just before returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025.During the course of his time in track, Pettit will carry out medical inspections and also modern technology exhibitions to aid prep the staff for potential space missions as well as give advantages to folks on Earth. Pettit will definitely take part in several of the dozens practices occurring in the course of his purpose, consisting of studying just how spaceflight has an effect on blood clotting, carrying on exams of innovation to generate human stem cells in space, and also adding his one-of-a-kind photography capabilities to the long-running Workers Planet Observations research of just how Earth is altering as time go on.NASA picked Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A pro of three spaceflights, he has contributed to indispensable advancements in innovation and also presentations for human area exploration. He functioned as a scientific research officer for Trip 6 in 2003, ran the robot upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, and acted as an air travel developer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days in space and carried out 2 spacewalks totting thirteen hrs and also 17 moments.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's level in Chemical Design from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral degree in Chemical Design coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his occupation along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a personnel scientist at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than two decades, humans have lived as well as operated regularly aboard the International Space Station, accelerating scientific knowledge, and also creating investigation breakthroughs that are actually not possible on Earth. The station is an important testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as overcome the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to broaden commercial possibilities in reduced Earth orbit. As industrial providers pay attention to providing human area transport companies and also places as portion of a strong reduced Earth orbit economic situation, NASA has the ability to center more of its own sources on deep space purposes to the Moon as well as Mars.Get breaking off headlines, images as well as features coming from the spaceport station on the place blog post, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More regarding International Spaceport station study as well as procedures 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.