.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is actually readily available for restricted job interview opportunities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming goal to the International Spaceport Station in September.The online job interviews will definitely flow reside on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, as well as the organization's site. Learn exactly how to stream NASA+ via a variety of systems including social media sites.Fascinated media have to send an ask for absolutely no later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will certainly release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The triad will certainly invest around 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory prior to returning to Planet in the spring season of 2025.During the course of his time in orbit, Pettit will definitely administer medical examinations as well as modern technology demos to assist prepare the crew for future room goals and offer advantages to people on Earth. Pettit is going to join numerous of the hundreds of experiments taking place during his objective, including studying how spaceflight affects blood clotting, carrying on tests of innovation to create human stalk tissues in space, as well as adding his special digital photography skills to the long-running Crew The planet Observations research of how Planet is transforming with time.NASA decided on Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A professional of three spaceflights, he has actually added to integral developments in technology and exhibitions for human space exploration. He served as a science police officer for Exploration 6 in 2003, operated the robot arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and also acted as a trip developer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times precede as well as performed two spacewalks totaling thirteen hrs and also 17 mins.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's degree in Chemical Design from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, and also a doctorate level in Chemical Engineering coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Before his profession along with NASA, Pettit worked as a workers scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than 20 years, humans have stayed as well as operated consistently aboard the International Space Station, advancing technology, and also bring in research study advances that are actually not achievable on Earth. The station is a vital testbed for NASA to know as well as beat the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to broaden industrial options in reduced Planet track. As business firms pay attention to supplying individual room transport companies and locations as portion of a strong low Planet orbit economy, NASA has the ability to focus more of its information on deeper space purposes to the Moon as well as Mars.Get breaking updates, images and components from the space station on the place blog, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Discover More concerning International Space Station analysis 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.