.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is actually accessible for limited meeting options beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming objective to the International Space Station in September.The digital meetings are going to stream survive on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and also the agency's website. Find out exactly how to flow NASA+ through a wide array of platforms featuring social media sites.Interested media should provide an ask for zero beyond 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space probe, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The trio will definitely invest roughly six months aboard the periodic laboratory just before returning to Earth in the springtime of 2025.During his attend track, Pettit will conduct clinical inspections and innovation demos to aid ready the crew for potential room objectives and offer advantages to people on Earth. Pettit will certainly take part in several of the hundreds of experiments taking place during his objective, consisting of examining exactly how spaceflight impacts blood clotting, proceeding tests of modern technology to produce individual stalk tissues in space, and adding his unique digital photography skills to the long-running Team Earth Observations research of how Earth is actually changing gradually.NASA decided on Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. An expert of 3 spaceflights, he has actually resulted in essential improvements in technology and demonstrations for individual room exploration. He functioned as a scientific research policeman for Exploration 6 in 2003, operated the robot upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, and worked as a flight designer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times precede as well as administered two spacewalks totaling thirteen hours as well as 17 minutes.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds a bachelor's level in Chemical Engineering from Oregon Condition College, Corvallis, as well as a doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his job along with NASA, Pettit worked as a staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For more than 20 years, human beings have actually resided as well as functioned continuously aboard the International Space Station, progressing technology, and also bring in study developments that are certainly not achievable on Earth. The station is actually an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend and conquer the problems of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase commercial opportunities in reduced Earth track. As industrial companies pay attention to providing human area transport companies as well as destinations as part of a durable low Planet track economic situation, NASA is able to concentrate more of its own information on deeper space objectives to the Moon and Mars.Obtain breaking information, photos and also attributes from the space station on the station blog, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Learn more about International Space Station investigation as well as operations 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 Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.