.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is available for limited meeting opportunities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming goal to the International Spaceport Station in September.The online interviews will certainly flow reside on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and also the company's site. Know how to flow NASA+ via a range of platforms including social networking sites.Excited media must submit a demand zero later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit is going to launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio will certainly devote approximately six months aboard the orbital lab just before coming back to The planet in the spring of 2025.Throughout his attend orbit, Pettit will perform medical inspections and also modern technology demonstrations to help ready the crew for potential area goals as well as supply advantages to individuals in the world. Pettit will join several of the dozens experiments happening in the course of his goal, featuring studying how spaceflight impacts blood clotting, proceeding exams of technology to create human stalk cells precede, as well as adding his one-of-a-kind photography capabilities to the long-running Workers Planet Observations research of just how Earth is actually modifying over time.NASA picked Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A pro of three spaceflights, he has actually supported indispensable improvements in modern technology and also exhibitions for human space exploration. He functioned as a science officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, functioned the automated arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and served as a tour developer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times precede and carried out two spacewalks totting thirteen hours as well as 17 minutes.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's level in Chemical Engineering from Oregon Condition Educational Institution, Corvallis, and a doctorate level in Chemical Design coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Before his career with NASA, Pettit functioned as a team researcher at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For greater than twenty years, people have resided as well as operated constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating scientific knowledge, and also creating analysis developments that are certainly not achievable in the world. The place is actually an important testbed for NASA to understand and get rid of the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to broaden industrial chances in low The planet orbit. As commercial companies pay attention to giving individual area transportation solutions and locations as aspect of a robust reduced Earth track economic condition, NASA manages to focus even more of its own sources on deep-seated area purposes to the Moon and Mars.Obtain breaking updates, pictures and also features coming from the space station on the station blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more about International Spaceport station research as well as operations 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.