.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is accessible for restricted job interview possibilities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming objective to the International Space Station in September.The online job interviews will definitely flow reside on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, as well as the agency's website. Learn exactly how to stream NASA+ via a variety of platforms featuring social media sites.Appealed to media have to provide an ask for zero behind 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The triad will devote about six months aboard the orbital lab prior to coming back to Earth in the spring season of 2025.Throughout his time in track, Pettit is going to conduct scientific examinations and also modern technology demonstrations to help prep the staff for potential area goals as well as offer benefits to folks on Earth. Pettit will participate in numerous of the hundreds of practices taking place during his objective, featuring studying exactly how spaceflight affects blood clot, carrying on examinations of innovation to create human stem cells in space, and also providing his unique photography skills to the long-running Staff Planet Observations research of just how Earth is changing over time.NASA decided on Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A professional of 3 spaceflights, he has contributed to integral improvements in innovation and demonstrations for human room expedition. He worked as a scientific research police officer for Trip 6 in 2003, operated the robot arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, as well as functioned as a tour designer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days precede as well as carried out 2 spacewalks totaling thirteen hrs and also 17 moments.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's level in Chemical Engineering from Oregon Condition College, Corvallis, and a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his job with NASA, Pettit operated as a staff expert at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For more than twenty years, humans have lived as well as worked constantly aboard the International Space Station, accelerating technology, and also bring in research study advances that are certainly not achievable in the world. The station is actually a crucial testbed for NASA to recognize and get rid of the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase commercial possibilities in reduced Planet track. As commercial firms focus on giving human area transport services and also locations as part of a sturdy low The planet track economic climate, NASA is able to center even more of its sources on deeper area goals to the Moon and also Mars.Obtain breaking off headlines, pictures and also attributes from the space station on the place weblog, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More regarding International Space Station research and procedures 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.