.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is actually readily available for limited job interview opportunities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to cover his upcoming objective to the International Spaceport Station in September.The virtual job interviews will flow reside on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and also the organization's web site. Know just how to flow NASA+ with a wide array of systems including social networks.Intrigued media should send an ask for zero beyond 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 definitely launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio will spend around 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory prior to coming back to The planet in the spring of 2025.During his attend track, Pettit will definitely conduct clinical inspections and also technology exhibitions to help prepare the workers for future area purposes as well as give benefits to people on Earth. Pettit will join many of the hundreds of practices happening during the course of his objective, featuring researching how spaceflight impacts blood clotting, proceeding exams of technology to create human stem cells in space, and adding his one-of-a-kind digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Crew Earth Monitorings study of exactly how Planet is actually modifying with time.NASA picked Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A professional of three spaceflights, he has brought about integral innovations in modern technology as well as presentations for human space exploration. He functioned as a scientific research officer for Trip 6 in 2003, ran the automated upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, and functioned as an air travel designer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times precede and also conducted 2 spacewalks totaling 13 hrs as well as 17 moments.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Oregon Condition College, Corvallis, and also a doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering coming from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his occupation along with NASA, Pettit operated as a workers scientist at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than two decades, human beings have actually lived and also functioned continuously aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving accurate knowledge, as well as creating analysis breakthroughs that are not feasible in the world. The place is actually an important testbed for NASA to understand as well as overcome the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase commercial chances in reduced Earth orbit. As industrial business pay attention to supplying human area transportation companies and locations as aspect of a robust reduced The planet track economic climate, NASA is able to focus additional of its resources on deep-seated room goals to the Moon and also Mars.Obtain breaking off headlines, photos as well as features from the space station on the place blog, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more regarding International Spaceport station analysis and also procedures 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.