.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually available for restricted job interview opportunities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming purpose to the International Space Station in September.The virtual job interviews will definitely stream live on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, as well as the firm's site. Know how to stream NASA+ through an assortment of systems consisting of social networks.Fascinated media should submit a demand absolutely no later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit is going to launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad will spend roughly six months aboard the orbital laboratory just before coming back to Planet in the springtime of 2025.In the course of his attend orbit, Pettit will definitely carry out medical examinations and technology demonstrations to aid prep the crew for future space purposes and also give benefits to folks in the world. Pettit is going to participate in several of the manies experiments happening in the course of his goal, including researching just how spaceflight influences blood clot, continuing exams of innovation to make human stem tissues precede, and adding his one-of-a-kind photography capabilities to the long-running Workers Earth Observations research of just how Planet is transforming gradually.NASA selected Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. An expert of 3 spaceflights, he has resulted in integral improvements in technology as well as exhibitions for human room expedition. He served as a scientific research officer for Trip 6 in 2003, worked the robot upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, and functioned as a flight engineer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days in space and also administered two spacewalks completing 13 hrs and also 17 mins.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Engineering from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, and also a doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his profession with NASA, Pettit worked as a personnel expert at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For greater than twenty years, people have actually stayed and worked continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating scientific knowledge, and making investigation breakthroughs that are certainly not achievable in the world. The station is actually a critical testbed for NASA to know and eliminate the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to broaden office possibilities in low Planet orbit. As office firms concentrate on providing individual space transit services and also destinations as portion of a strong reduced Earth track economic climate, NASA manages to concentrate more of its sources on deep-seated space objectives to the Moon and Mars.Receive breaking off updates, photos and also attributes coming from the space station on the place blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More about International Spaceport station research study as well as functions 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.