.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is actually offered for limited job interview possibilities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming goal to the International Space Station in September.The virtual job interviews are going to stream survive NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and also the company's web site. Discover just how to flow NASA+ by means of a variety of platforms consisting of social media sites.Interested media must send an ask for no behind 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The triad will spend about 6 months aboard the periodic lab before returning to The planet in the springtime of 2025.In the course of his attend track, Pettit will perform clinical inspections and also modern technology demonstrations to help prepare the crew for future space objectives and offer advantages to folks on Earth. Pettit will participate in numerous of the numerous practices happening in the course of his objective, consisting of researching how spaceflight influences blood clotting, proceeding examinations of technology to generate individual stem cells in space, and also contributing his unique digital photography capabilities to the long-running Team Earth Monitorings study of just how Planet is actually changing over time.NASA chose Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. An expert of 3 spaceflights, he has helped in integral developments in technology and also demonstrations for human area expedition. He worked as a science officer for Trip 6 in 2003, ran the automated arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and worked as a trip engineer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times in space and also conducted two spacewalks totting 13 hrs and also 17 moments.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds an undergraduate's level in Chemical Design coming from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral degree in Chemical Design coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Before his profession with NASA, Pettit worked as a workers researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For much more than two decades, people have stayed and operated continually aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge, as well as making research innovations that are actually not possible on Earth. The station is actually a critical testbed for NASA to know and get rid of the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden commercial possibilities in low The planet orbit. As business business pay attention to delivering human area transport solutions as well as destinations as part of a strong reduced Planet track economic situation, NASA is able to center even more of its sources on deeper area purposes to the Moon and Mars.Acquire cutting updates, pictures and features coming from the space station on the place blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More concerning International Spaceport station study as well as 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.