.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually available for restricted job interview possibilities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming goal to the International Spaceport Station in September.The virtual job interviews will definitely stream live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, and also the organization's site. Find out just how to flow NASA+ through a range of platforms consisting of social media.Intrigued media have to provide a request absolutely no later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The trio will certainly invest about 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory just before coming back to Earth in the spring season of 2025.In the course of his time in track, Pettit is going to conduct scientific inspections and also modern technology presentations to assist ready the team for future space purposes as well as deliver advantages to folks on Earth. Pettit is going to participate in several of the thousands of experiments happening in the course of his mission, featuring analyzing how spaceflight has an effect on blood clotting, continuing examinations of modern technology to create human stalk tissues in space, as well as adding his unique photography skill-sets to the long-running Team Earth Monitorings research study of exactly how The planet is actually changing with time.NASA picked Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A veteran of three spaceflights, he has actually supported important innovations in technology and demos for individual room expedition. He acted as a scientific research policeman for Exploration 6 in 2003, operated the robot arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and also served as a trip engineer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days precede and also conducted two spacewalks amounting to 13 hours as well as 17 moments.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps a bachelor's level in Chemical Design coming from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, as well as a doctorate level in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his career with NASA, Pettit worked as a workers scientist at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For more than twenty years, human beings have resided as well as worked regularly aboard the International Space Station, accelerating accurate knowledge, as well as creating investigation developments that are certainly not achievable in the world. The place is a vital testbed for NASA to comprehend and get rid of the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend commercial options in reduced Planet orbit. As industrial providers concentrate on providing human area transportation services and places as aspect of a strong low Planet track economic climate, NASA has the capacity to center additional of its own resources on deep-seated area purposes to the Moon as well as Mars.Acquire breaking headlines, images and also features coming from the spaceport station on the place blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station investigation as well as operations 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.