.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is offered 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 online meetings are going to flow live on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, as well as the company's internet site. Know just how to stream NASA+ via a selection of systems featuring social networks.Intrigued media have to send an ask for no later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will certainly launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad will certainly spend roughly 6 months aboard the orbital laboratory prior to going back to The planet in the springtime of 2025.Throughout his time in track, Pettit will certainly perform clinical investigations and modern technology presentations to assist prep the workers for future room purposes as well as supply perks to folks in the world. Pettit will certainly join several of the dozens experiments taking place in the course of his purpose, including studying just how spaceflight influences blood clotting, proceeding exams of technology to produce human stalk tissues in space, and also contributing his one-of-a-kind digital photography skill-sets to the long-running Workers The planet Observations study of just how Earth is actually altering with time.NASA selected Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A professional of three spaceflights, he has contributed to indispensable developments in modern technology as well as demos for human area expedition. He functioned as a science police officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, functioned the robot arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, and also acted as a tour developer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days in space and also performed pair of spacewalks completing 13 hrs and 17 minutes.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Design coming from Oregon State Educational Institution, Corvallis, as well as a doctorate level in Chemical Design from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his occupation with NASA, Pettit worked as a workers expert at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than 20 years, people have actually resided and functioned consistently aboard the International Spaceport station, advancing accurate knowledge, and also making research discoveries that are actually not feasible on Earth. The place is actually an important testbed for NASA to understand and get rid of the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to increase business options in low The planet track. As office firms focus on supplying human space transportation solutions and also locations as aspect of a robust reduced The planet track economy, NASA manages to center more of its own resources on deep space objectives to the Moon and Mars.Receive breaking information, photos and also attributes coming from the space station on the place blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more about International Space Station research as well as functions 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.