.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is readily available for limited interview options starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.The digital interviews will definitely stream live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and the company's website. Know how to flow NASA+ by means of a variety of platforms consisting of social media sites.Interested media should submit a demand absolutely no beyond 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will certainly release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The trio will certainly devote about six months aboard the orbital laboratory just before coming back to Planet in the springtime of 2025.During his time in track, Pettit will certainly perform medical inspections and innovation presentations to assist ready the team for future area goals as well as offer perks to people on Earth. Pettit is going to join several of the numerous experiments taking place during the course of his purpose, consisting of studying how spaceflight influences blood clot, proceeding tests of technology to create individual stalk tissues in space, and adding his distinct photography skills to the long-running Team Planet Monitorings research study of how Planet is actually changing as time go on.NASA selected Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A pro of three spaceflights, he has actually helped in indispensable developments in technology and also exhibitions for individual area exploration. He served as a scientific research policeman for Expedition 6 in 2003, ran the automated upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and also acted as a flight developer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times precede as well as carried out 2 spacewalks completing thirteen hours and also 17 mins.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Design from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, and also a doctorate degree in Chemical Engineering from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his job with NASA, Pettit operated as a staff researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For more than two decades, humans have lived and operated constantly aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge, as well as creating analysis breakthroughs that are actually not feasible on Earth. The station is actually a critical testbed for NASA to comprehend and also conquer the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to extend business possibilities in low Planet track. As office business pay attention to giving individual area transit companies as well as locations as portion of a strong low The planet track economic condition, NASA has the capacity to concentrate additional of its information on deeper room objectives to the Moon and also Mars.Acquire breaking headlines, pictures as well as features coming from the space station on the station blog, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Discover More regarding International Space Station investigation as well as operations 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.