.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is available for limited job interview possibilities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming purpose to the International Space Station in September.The virtual job interviews will certainly stream reside on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, and the firm's website. Discover exactly how to flow NASA+ via a selection of systems featuring social networking sites.Appealed to media have to submit a demand no behind 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 space probe, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The triad will definitely invest around 6 months aboard the periodic lab prior to returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025.In the course of his time in track, Pettit will carry out scientific examinations and modern technology exhibitions to aid prep the team for future space missions and deliver advantages to individuals on Earth. Pettit will definitely take part in many of the manies practices taking place during the course of his purpose, including studying just how spaceflight has an effect on blood clotting, carrying on examinations of modern technology to create individual stem cells in space, as well as providing his one-of-a-kind photography skill-sets to the long-running Workers Earth Observations study of how Planet is actually changing eventually.NASA picked Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A veteran of 3 spaceflights, he has actually added to integral developments in innovation as well as demonstrations for human area exploration. He acted as a science policeman for Expedition 6 in 2003, functioned the robot upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, as well as worked as an air travel designer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times in space and performed pair of spacewalks completing thirteen hours and 17 moments.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's level in Chemical Design coming from Oregon State College, Corvallis, and a doctoral degree in Chemical Design from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Before his profession along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a workers scientist at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For more than twenty years, people have stayed and functioned continually aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing scientific knowledge, and bring in research study discoveries that are certainly not feasible in the world. The station is an essential testbed for NASA to know and beat the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to extend commercial options in low Earth orbit. As office business focus on supplying human area transportation solutions and also destinations as part of a strong reduced Earth track economic situation, NASA manages to center additional of its own sources on deep-seated space missions to the Moon and Mars.Get cutting updates, images and attributes coming from the spaceport station on the station blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station study and procedures 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.