.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is readily available for limited meeting possibilities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming purpose to the International Space Station in September.The online meetings will stream survive on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and the firm's internet site. Find out exactly how to stream NASA+ with a variety of platforms featuring social networking sites.Intrigued media have to submit a demand absolutely no beyond 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The trio will definitely devote around six months aboard the orbital lab prior to returning to Earth in the spring of 2025.During the course of his attend orbit, Pettit is going to perform scientific examinations and also modern technology exhibitions to help ready the staff for potential space goals and deliver benefits to people in the world. Pettit will join numerous of the thousands of experiments happening during his mission, consisting of studying just how spaceflight affects blood clotting, carrying on examinations of technology to generate human stem tissues precede, and contributing his one-of-a-kind digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Staff The planet Monitorings study of how Planet is actually changing with time.NASA chose Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A veteran of three spaceflights, he has actually supported essential advancements in innovation and demonstrations for human room exploration. He served as a science policeman for Exploration 6 in 2003, operated the automated upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, as well as served as a trip engineer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has actually logged 370 days precede and administered two spacewalks totting thirteen hours and also 17 mins.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's level in Chemical Engineering from Oregon Condition College, Corvallis, and a doctoral level in Chemical Design from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his occupation along with NASA, Pettit worked as a team expert at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For greater than 20 years, human beings have actually stayed and functioned continuously aboard the International Space Station, accelerating scientific knowledge, and also making research study developments that are not possible on Earth. The place is a critical testbed for NASA to understand as well as overcome the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to expand commercial possibilities in reduced The planet orbit. As business business pay attention to providing individual space transit companies and also locations as aspect of a robust low The planet orbit economy, NASA is able to focus additional of its own information on deep-seated space objectives to the Moon and also Mars.Obtain breaking information, images and also functions coming from the spaceport station on the station blog site, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station analysis and 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.