.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually readily available for minimal interview options starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming mission to the International Spaceport Station in September.The digital meetings will definitely flow live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, as well as the agency's website. Learn just how to stream NASA+ via an assortment of platforms featuring social networking sites.Fascinated media should send a demand zero beyond 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio is going to devote about 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory before coming back to Earth in the spring of 2025.In the course of his time in orbit, Pettit will definitely perform clinical examinations as well as innovation presentations to help prepare the staff for potential space purposes as well as offer advantages to people in the world. Pettit will certainly join many of the thousands of practices occurring during his purpose, including analyzing how spaceflight has an effect on blood clotting, carrying on exams of technology to generate individual stem tissues precede, and also contributing his distinct photography skills to the long-running Workers Earth Reviews research study of exactly how Earth is actually altering as time go on.NASA chose Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. An expert of 3 spaceflights, he has actually added to essential innovations in technology and also demonstrations for individual space expedition. He functioned as a science policeman for Expedition 6 in 2003, functioned the robot arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and also served as a flight designer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days in space as well as performed pair of spacewalks totaling 13 hrs as well as 17 moments.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon State University, Corvallis, and also a doctoral level in Chemical Design coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his occupation with NASA, Pettit operated as a team researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For greater than two decades, human beings have lived and worked constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating technology, and also making study innovations that are not possible in the world. The station is a vital testbed for NASA to recognize and also conquer the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to broaden industrial options in reduced Planet orbit. As business business focus on supplying individual room transport companies as well as places as portion of a sturdy low Earth track economic climate, NASA has the capacity to concentrate more of its information on deep area objectives to the Moon as well as Mars.Receive breaking news, graphics and also attributes coming from the space station on the station blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more regarding International Space Station research 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.