.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is actually on call for restricted meeting options starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming purpose to the International Space Station in September.The virtual interviews will stream survive NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, as well as the organization's internet site. Know exactly how to flow NASA+ via a range of platforms featuring social networking sites.Interested media need to provide an ask for no later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will certainly release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio will definitely spend about six months aboard the periodic lab before coming back to Earth in the springtime of 2025.During the course of his attend track, Pettit will conduct scientific inspections and also modern technology exhibitions to help prepare the workers for potential space objectives and also give advantages to individuals on Earth. Pettit will join numerous of the manies practices taking place during his goal, including examining just how spaceflight affects blood clotting, carrying on examinations of innovation to generate human stem cells in space, as well as adding his one-of-a-kind photography skills to the long-running Workers The planet Monitorings research study of how Earth is modifying gradually.NASA selected Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A veteran of three spaceflights, he has added to indispensable developments in technology and also exhibitions for human area exploration. He functioned as a scientific research officer for Trip 6 in 2003, operated the automated upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and served as an air travel engineer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times precede as well as conducted two spacewalks totaling 13 hours as well as 17 minutes.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's level in Chemical Design coming from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, as well as a doctorate level in Chemical Engineering from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his job with NASA, Pettit functioned as a workers scientist at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than 20 years, humans have actually lived and worked continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing accurate knowledge, and making analysis innovations that are actually certainly not possible on Earth. The station is actually an essential testbed for NASA to recognize and also get rid of the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to expand commercial possibilities in low Planet track. As business providers concentrate on supplying individual area transportation solutions and also locations as portion of a robust reduced Planet track economic condition, NASA has the capacity to focus more of its sources on deep area missions to the Moon and Mars.Obtain breaking off updates, graphics and also components coming from the spaceport station on the station blog site, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More concerning International Spaceport station research and also functions 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.