.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is readily available for limited job interview possibilities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming objective to the International Spaceport Station in September.The online job interviews are going to flow survive NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and also the company's web site. Find out just how to flow NASA+ via an assortment of platforms consisting of social networking sites.Excited media must send a request 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 will introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio will devote roughly 6 months aboard the periodic lab before going back to The planet in the spring season of 2025.In the course of his time in orbit, Pettit is going to conduct scientific inspections and also innovation exhibitions to aid prepare the team for future room objectives as well as deliver benefits to folks on Earth. Pettit will take part in several of the hundreds of practices taking place in the course of his purpose, featuring researching just how spaceflight affects blood clotting, continuing examinations of modern technology to make individual stem cells in space, as well as adding his one-of-a-kind digital photography skills to the long-running Staff Planet Observations research study of just how The planet is actually transforming in time.NASA chose Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A professional of three spaceflights, he has helped in important developments in modern technology and also exhibitions for human space exploration. He functioned as a science officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, worked the robot arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and functioned as an air travel developer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times precede and conducted 2 spacewalks completing thirteen hours and 17 mins.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's level in Chemical Design coming from Oregon State University, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral level in Chemical Design coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Before his occupation with NASA, Pettit worked as a personnel scientist at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than 20 years, humans have resided as well as worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, evolving accurate knowledge, and making investigation advancements that are actually not achievable on Earth. The station is an essential testbed for NASA to know and also eliminate the problems of long-duration spaceflight and to grow office opportunities in reduced Planet orbit. As office business concentrate on providing human space transit companies and also places as aspect of a sturdy low Planet track economy, NASA has the ability to center additional of its own information on deeper area goals to the Moon and also Mars.Get breaking off news, pictures and features coming from the spaceport station on the place blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station analysis 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.