.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is available for restricted meeting options beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming purpose to the International Spaceport Station in September.The digital interviews will stream live on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, as well as the agency's internet site. Find out how to flow NASA+ via a variety of systems consisting of social networks.Interested media should submit an ask for zero later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will certainly release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio will certainly devote approximately six months aboard the orbital lab prior to going back to Earth in the spring of 2025.During his attend orbit, Pettit will conduct clinical inspections as well as innovation demonstrations to help prep the crew for potential space purposes as well as provide advantages to individuals on Earth. Pettit will definitely join several of the hundreds of experiments occurring during the course of his purpose, consisting of examining exactly how spaceflight influences blood clotting, carrying on exams of innovation to make human stem cells precede, and also contributing his unique digital photography abilities to the long-running Team The planet Observations research study of how The planet is modifying in time.NASA chose Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. An expert of 3 spaceflights, he has actually helped in essential innovations in innovation and demos for individual area expedition. He functioned as a science police officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, operated the robotic arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, as well as worked as a tour developer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days precede and also conducted 2 spacewalks amounting to 13 hours and 17 minutes.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's level in Chemical Design from Oregon Condition Educational Institution, Corvallis, as well as a doctorate degree in Chemical Engineering coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Before his occupation with NASA, Pettit operated as a workers researcher at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For greater than two decades, humans have resided and operated constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving accurate knowledge, and also bring in analysis advancements that are actually certainly not feasible in the world. The place is actually an important testbed for NASA to understand as well as overcome the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to increase industrial options in reduced The planet orbit. As commercial business concentrate on providing individual room transit companies and locations as portion of a durable low The planet track economy, NASA manages to focus more of its own resources on deep-seated area purposes to the Moon and Mars.Get breaking off headlines, graphics and also attributes coming from the space station on the place blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More regarding International Space Station study 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.