.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually accessible for minimal job interview options beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to cover his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.The online job interviews will certainly stream survive NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and the organization's web site. Discover just how to stream NASA+ via a range of platforms consisting of social media.Intrigued media must provide a demand absolutely no later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio will certainly spend around six months aboard the orbital lab before coming back to Earth in the spring season of 2025.During his time in orbit, Pettit is going to carry out clinical examinations and modern technology demos to help ready the crew for potential room objectives as well as deliver advantages to individuals on Earth. Pettit is going to join numerous of the dozens practices occurring in the course of his goal, consisting of analyzing just how spaceflight affects blood clotting, continuing exams of innovation to produce individual stalk tissues precede, and also adding his one-of-a-kind photography capabilities to the long-running Staff Planet Monitorings research study of just how Earth is actually altering eventually.NASA decided on Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. An expert of three spaceflights, he has actually resulted in integral advancements in innovation and presentations for individual area exploration. He functioned as a science officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, worked the robot upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and served as an air travel developer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times in space and performed two spacewalks totting thirteen hours and 17 minutes.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's level in Chemical Design coming from Oregon State Educational Institution, Corvallis, and also a doctorate degree in Chemical Design coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his occupation with NASA, Pettit operated as a workers expert at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than 20 years, people have stayed and also worked constantly aboard the International Space Station, accelerating technology, and creating research advances that are actually not possible on Earth. The station is actually an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend and eliminate the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and also to expand commercial possibilities in low Earth track. As commercial companies concentrate on offering individual room transport companies and destinations as component of a durable low The planet orbit economic situation, NASA has the ability to focus even more of its resources on deep area objectives to the Moon and also Mars.Obtain breaking headlines, photos and also attributes from the space station on the place blog, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more about International Space Station research 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.