.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is actually available for restricted job interview possibilities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to cover his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.The virtual job interviews will certainly flow live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, as well as the company's web site. Find out how to stream NASA+ with a selection of platforms consisting of social networking sites.Interested media need to submit a demand 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 launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad is going to spend roughly six months aboard the orbital laboratory before coming back to Planet in the spring of 2025.Throughout his time in orbit, Pettit will certainly administer scientific investigations and innovation demonstrations to aid prep the staff for potential space goals and also offer benefits to folks on Earth. Pettit is going to participate in several of the numerous practices taking place in the course of his objective, consisting of studying how spaceflight has an effect on blood clot, continuing tests of innovation to create individual stalk cells in space, and also contributing his one-of-a-kind photography abilities to the long-running Crew Earth Observations study of exactly how Planet is altering gradually.NASA decided on Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. An expert of 3 spaceflights, he has contributed to important developments in modern technology as well as presentations for individual area expedition. He acted as a science officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, ran the automated upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and also served as a trip engineer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days in space and administered 2 spacewalks totting 13 hrs and also 17 minutes.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon State University, Corvallis, and also a doctoral degree in Chemical Design coming from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Before his job along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a personnel researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For more than 20 years, humans have actually stayed as well as functioned continually aboard the International Space Station, advancing technology, and also creating research breakthroughs that are certainly not possible on Earth. The place is actually a critical testbed for NASA to understand and also overcome the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to extend business chances in reduced Earth orbit. As office companies focus on delivering individual space transit solutions and destinations as component of a robust reduced The planet track economy, NASA manages to center additional of its own sources on deeper room goals to the Moon and Mars.Acquire breaking off updates, pictures as well as attributes from the space station on the station weblog, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Discover More about International Space Station investigation and 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.