.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually accessible for limited meeting opportunities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming objective to the International Space Station in September.The digital meetings will definitely stream survive NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and also the firm's website. Know exactly how to flow NASA+ via a selection of platforms consisting of social networking sites.Fascinated media have to submit a request absolutely no beyond 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 release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The triad is going to devote roughly six months aboard the orbital laboratory just before returning to Earth in the spring of 2025.During the course of his time in orbit, Pettit is going to carry out medical examinations as well as innovation presentations to aid prepare the staff for potential room missions and offer advantages to individuals in the world. Pettit is going to join many of the thousands of experiments occurring in the course of his objective, including researching exactly how spaceflight has an effect on blood clotting, proceeding examinations of modern technology to create human stalk cells in space, and providing his special photography skills to the long-running Team Planet Monitorings research of how Earth is changing eventually.NASA chose Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A veteran of 3 spaceflights, he has brought about indispensable advancements in innovation and also demonstrations for human room exploration. He served as a science police officer for Exploration 6 in 2003, ran the robot upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, and also acted as a tour developer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days in space and administered 2 spacewalks totting 13 hrs and also 17 mins.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Design coming from Oregon State University, Corvallis, and a doctorate degree in Chemical Engineering coming from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his career with NASA, Pettit operated as a workers expert at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For more than two decades, humans have actually resided and operated regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing technology, and bring in research study discoveries that are actually not achievable in the world. The station is actually a critical testbed for NASA to comprehend and also get rid of the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to increase industrial options in reduced The planet orbit. As industrial business focus on supplying human space transport services and also destinations as portion of a robust low Planet track economic condition, NASA has the ability to focus additional of its own resources on deeper room goals to the Moon and Mars.Receive breaking headlines, images as well as attributes from the space station on the place blog, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station research study and functions 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.