.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is offered for limited job interview options 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 stream live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, and also the company's site. Learn just how to stream NASA+ by means of a variety of platforms featuring social media.Excited media need to submit a request absolutely no later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit is going to introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The triad will spend approximately six months aboard the orbital research laboratory before returning to Planet in the spring of 2025.In the course of his time in track, Pettit will administer scientific inspections and also modern technology presentations to help ready the workers for potential room goals and supply benefits to individuals on Earth. Pettit will definitely participate in many of the thousands of experiments happening throughout his goal, consisting of examining just how spaceflight influences blood clotting, continuing examinations of modern technology to create individual stem tissues precede, and providing his special photography skills to the long-running Crew Earth Observations research study of exactly how Planet is actually modifying eventually.NASA selected Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A professional of three spaceflights, he has actually contributed to indispensable advancements in modern technology and also exhibitions for individual area expedition. He functioned as a science policeman for Trip 6 in 2003, functioned the robotic arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and served as an air travel developer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 times precede and also administered two spacewalks totaling thirteen hrs and 17 minutes.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Design from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, and also a doctoral level in Chemical Design from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Before his job along with NASA, Pettit worked as a workers expert at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For greater than 20 years, human beings have actually stayed and worked continually aboard the International Space Station, progressing scientific knowledge, as well as creating research study advances that are actually not achievable in the world. The place is actually a critical testbed for NASA to know and also overcome the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to broaden commercial opportunities in low Earth track. As office providers pay attention to giving human room transit services and destinations as part of a robust reduced The planet track economy, NASA manages to center more of its own information on deep space purposes to the Moon and also Mars.Obtain breaking off headlines, pictures and components coming from the spaceport station on the station blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Discover More about International Spaceport station analysis as well as 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.