.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually offered for limited job interview options starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming purpose to the International Space Station in September.The digital job interviews will definitely stream live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and the company's website. Find out just how to stream NASA+ via a selection of systems including social networks.Appealed to media have to send a request no behind 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 release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The triad will invest around 6 months aboard the orbital lab before coming back to The planet in the spring season of 2025.During his time in orbit, Pettit will certainly carry out medical examinations and technology demos to aid prep the team for potential space purposes as well as give benefits to individuals on Earth. Pettit will certainly take part in several of the numerous practices occurring during his mission, including examining exactly how spaceflight has an effect on blood clotting, continuing examinations of innovation to make human stalk tissues precede, as well as contributing his one-of-a-kind photography skill-sets to the long-running Team Planet Reviews research of how Planet is changing in time.NASA chose Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A pro of three spaceflights, he has supported indispensable innovations in technology and also presentations for individual space exploration. He served as a science officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, ran the robot upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and also functioned as a tour designer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times precede as well as administered pair of spacewalks completing 13 hrs and also 17 minutes.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's level in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon Condition Educational Institution, Corvallis, as well as a doctorate level in Chemical Design from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his profession along with NASA, Pettit operated as a team expert at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than twenty years, human beings have actually stayed and also worked constantly aboard the International Space Station, progressing technology, and also creating research study breakthroughs that are actually not possible on Earth. The place is an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend and also eliminate the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden commercial possibilities in reduced The planet orbit. As commercial firms concentrate on giving human area transit services as well as places as aspect of a sturdy reduced Planet track economic condition, NASA is able to center even more of its own information on deep-seated area purposes to the Moon and also Mars.Receive cutting news, graphics and also attributes from the spaceport station on the station blog site, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station research study and operations 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.