.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually readily available for restricted job interview opportunities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.The virtual job interviews will certainly flow survive NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and the agency's web site. Discover how to stream NASA+ through a range of platforms featuring social media.Appealed to media should submit a demand absolutely no beyond 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will certainly release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The trio is going to spend approximately 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory just before going back to Earth in the springtime of 2025.In the course of his time in orbit, Pettit will administer clinical inspections and also innovation demos to aid prep the crew for future area objectives and deliver benefits to people on Earth. Pettit will participate in many of the dozens practices taking place during the course of his objective, consisting of examining exactly how spaceflight has an effect on blood clot, carrying on tests of technology to make human stem tissues in space, and contributing his one-of-a-kind photography capabilities to the long-running Team The planet Monitorings research of exactly how Earth is actually modifying over time.NASA selected Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A veteran of 3 spaceflights, he has supported integral innovations in modern technology and presentations for individual space exploration. He acted as a scientific research officer for Trip 6 in 2003, operated the automated upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, as well as acted as a flight designer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times in space and administered 2 spacewalks completing thirteen hours as well as 17 mins.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds an undergraduate's level in Chemical Design coming from Oregon State College, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his profession along with NASA, Pettit worked as a personnel expert at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than twenty years, humans have actually stayed and also worked constantly aboard the International Space Station, progressing scientific knowledge, and also creating analysis advancements that are certainly not feasible on Earth. The place is an essential testbed for NASA to understand and eliminate the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to expand office options in reduced The planet orbit. As industrial business concentrate on supplying individual area transport solutions and also destinations as part of a durable reduced Planet track economic situation, NASA has the capacity to concentrate even more of its information on deeper room purposes to the Moon as well as Mars.Acquire breaking updates, graphics and features from the space station on the station blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More regarding International Spaceport station investigation and 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.