.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is offered for minimal job interview chances beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.The online job interviews are going to stream survive NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and also the firm's web site. Find out how to stream NASA+ by means of a variety of platforms consisting of social networking sites.Interested media must send a request absolutely no later than 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 is going to release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio will devote about six months aboard the periodic laboratory just before going back to Planet in the spring of 2025.During his time in track, Pettit will perform scientific examinations as well as innovation demos to aid ready the crew for potential space goals as well as provide perks to individuals in the world. Pettit will definitely participate in many of the numerous practices taking place throughout his goal, consisting of studying just how spaceflight impacts blood clotting, proceeding examinations of modern technology to make human stem cells precede, and also providing his unique digital photography capabilities to the long-running Crew The planet Observations research study of how Earth is actually changing in time.NASA picked Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. An expert of three spaceflights, he has actually supported essential improvements in technology as well as presentations for individual room exploration. He functioned as a science police officer for Exploration 6 in 2003, operated the automated upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and served as an air travel designer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times in space and performed two spacewalks completing thirteen hours as well as 17 moments.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering coming from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Before his occupation with NASA, Pettit worked as a staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For more than twenty years, people have actually lived and also functioned constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing scientific knowledge, and bring in research study innovations that are certainly not feasible on Earth. The station is actually a vital testbed for NASA to know and eliminate the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden business options in reduced Earth track. As commercial providers focus on giving human space transport solutions as well as locations as component of a strong reduced Planet track economic situation, NASA is able to concentrate even more of its sources on deep space objectives to the Moon and also Mars.Receive breaking off news, graphics as well as features from the spaceport station on the station weblog, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more about International Space Station research as well as 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.