.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is available for restricted job interview chances starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming objective to the International Space Station in September.The digital job interviews will definitely flow live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and also the agency's website. Know exactly how to stream NASA+ by means of a wide array of platforms featuring social networks.Excited media should provide a demand no later than 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 release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad is going to spend about 6 months aboard the periodic research laboratory prior to returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025.In the course of his time in track, Pettit is going to conduct scientific examinations and innovation demos to help prepare the team for future room objectives and deliver advantages to folks on Earth. Pettit will definitely take part in many of the manies practices happening in the course of his objective, consisting of researching exactly how spaceflight influences blood clotting, continuing examinations of innovation to create individual stem cells precede, as well as providing his special photography abilities to the long-running Team Planet Observations research study of how Earth is altering eventually.NASA chose Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A pro of three spaceflights, he has actually resulted in important developments in modern technology and demonstrations for individual room exploration. He worked as a science police officer for Trip 6 in 2003, operated the automated upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and served as a trip developer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days precede and carried out two spacewalks totting 13 hours and 17 minutes.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Design from Oregon State University, Corvallis, and a doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering coming from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Before his job with NASA, Pettit functioned as a workers scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than two decades, people have stayed and functioned regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving scientific knowledge, and making study advances that are certainly not possible in the world. The place is actually an important testbed for NASA to know and also get over the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to expand business options in low Earth track. As commercial firms focus on providing individual area transport companies and also places as aspect of a sturdy reduced Planet orbit economic climate, NASA has the ability to focus additional of its resources on deeper space missions to the Moon as well as Mars.Obtain breaking off updates, images and also components from the spaceport station on the station blog post, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More concerning International Spaceport station research study and also 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.