.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually offered for restricted interview options beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming goal to the International Spaceport Station in September.The digital interviews will stream live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, as well as the agency's internet site. Know exactly how to stream NASA+ via an assortment of systems consisting of social networks.Fascinated media need to provide a request absolutely no beyond 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 definitely launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio will certainly invest around six months aboard the orbital laboratory prior to returning to Earth in the spring season of 2025.Throughout his time in track, Pettit will definitely perform scientific investigations and also innovation exhibitions to aid prep the crew for future space objectives and offer perks to folks on Earth. Pettit is going to join several of the dozens practices taking place during his purpose, including analyzing how spaceflight has an effect on blood clotting, continuing tests of innovation to generate individual stalk tissues in space, and also adding his distinct digital photography skills to the long-running Team The planet Monitorings research study of just how The planet is changing in time.NASA selected Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A professional of 3 spaceflights, he has helped in important advancements in innovation and presentations for human area expedition. He worked as a science policeman for Trip 6 in 2003, worked the automated upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and functioned as a flight developer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times in space as well as administered 2 spacewalks amounting to 13 hours and also 17 minutes.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Design from Oregon State College, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral degree in Chemical Design from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his occupation with NASA, Pettit operated as a workers expert at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For more than twenty years, people have actually resided and operated continuously aboard the International Space Station, evolving accurate knowledge, as well as creating research study advancements that are actually not possible in the world. The station is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as overcome the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to broaden business possibilities in reduced Planet orbit. As office companies concentrate on giving human space transit solutions and destinations as aspect of a durable low Planet track economic climate, NASA has the capacity to center even more of its resources on deep area purposes to the Moon and also Mars.Obtain breaking information, images and features coming from the spaceport station on the station blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More regarding International Spaceport station analysis as well as 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.