.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is actually offered for minimal meeting chances starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.The online interviews will flow reside on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and the company's internet site. Know just how to stream NASA+ via a wide array of platforms featuring social media.Appealed to media need to provide an ask for 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 even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will certainly introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The triad will certainly spend roughly 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory just before returning to The planet in the spring season of 2025.Throughout his attend orbit, Pettit will certainly perform clinical investigations as well as modern technology presentations to help prep the staff for future space purposes as well as offer advantages to people on Earth. Pettit will certainly join several of the dozens experiments taking place during the course of his goal, consisting of examining how spaceflight has an effect on blood clotting, continuing examinations of innovation to make human stalk tissues precede, as well as contributing his unique photography abilities to the long-running Crew Planet Reviews study of how Planet is altering eventually.NASA picked Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A veteran of three spaceflights, he has actually contributed to essential innovations in innovation and also demos for individual area exploration. He served as a science policeman for Exploration 6 in 2003, ran the robotic upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and worked as a trip engineer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times in space and administered two spacewalks completing 13 hours and 17 moments.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Design from Oregon State Educational Institution, Corvallis, as well as a doctorate degree in Chemical Design coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his job along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a staff expert at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For greater than twenty years, people have lived and also worked continually aboard the International Space Station, accelerating scientific knowledge, as well as bring in investigation advancements that are actually certainly not feasible on Earth. The place is an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend and get rid of the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and also to expand business chances in reduced Planet track. As commercial companies concentrate on supplying individual space transportation companies and also places as aspect of a robust low Planet track economic climate, NASA manages to focus additional of its own information on deeper area purposes to the Moon and Mars.Obtain breaking off headlines, graphics and also components coming from the space station on the station blog site, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More about International Space Station investigation and also 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.