.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually offered for restricted job interview possibilities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming objective to the International Space Station in September.The virtual job interviews will definitely flow live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, as well as the agency's website. Know how to stream NASA+ through a range of platforms including social networking sites.Appealed to media must send a demand absolutely no behind 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 introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio will certainly spend approximately 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory before going back to Planet in the spring season of 2025.During the course of his attend track, Pettit will definitely administer scientific investigations as well as technology exhibitions to help prepare the crew for potential room missions and also deliver perks to people in the world. Pettit will certainly participate in many of the thousands of practices happening throughout his objective, consisting of researching just how spaceflight influences blood clotting, continuing examinations of innovation to produce human stalk cells precede, and also adding his special digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Workers Planet Monitorings study of how Planet is modifying in time.NASA selected Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A pro of 3 spaceflights, he has actually resulted in important advancements in technology and demonstrations for human area exploration. He worked as a science policeman for Exploration 6 in 2003, worked the automated arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, and acted as a tour developer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days precede as well as conducted pair of spacewalks totaling 13 hrs and 17 moments.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University, Corvallis, and also a doctoral degree in Chemical Design from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his profession with NASA, Pettit functioned as a team expert at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For much more than 20 years, human beings have resided and also functioned consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing technology, as well as creating investigation innovations that are certainly not feasible on Earth. The station is a vital testbed for NASA to understand as well as eliminate the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to grow business possibilities in low Planet track. As commercial business focus on delivering individual area transit solutions and locations as component of a robust low Earth track economic condition, NASA manages to concentrate additional of its own resources on deep-seated space objectives to the Moon and also Mars.Get breaking headlines, pictures and also components coming from the space station on the station blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more about International Spaceport station analysis and procedures 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.