.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is on call for limited meeting options starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming goal to the International Spaceport Station in September.The digital meetings will certainly stream live on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and the firm's website. Discover exactly how to stream NASA+ by means of a variety of platforms featuring social media.Interested media need to submit an ask for zero later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston at 281-483-5111 or even jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit is going to introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad is going to spend roughly 6 months aboard the periodic laboratory before coming back to The planet in the spring of 2025.Throughout his time in track, Pettit will definitely administer medical inspections and modern technology demos to help prep the team for future area purposes and also deliver benefits to people in the world. Pettit will certainly take part in several of the manies practices taking place in the course of his objective, consisting of studying how spaceflight has an effect on blood clot, proceeding tests of modern technology to produce individual stalk cells precede, and also providing his special photography abilities to the long-running Crew The planet Monitorings study of how Earth is changing eventually.NASA decided on Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. An expert of 3 spaceflights, he has actually supported important innovations in innovation as well as presentations for human area exploration. He acted as a science police officer for Exploration 6 in 2003, functioned the automated arm for STS-126 space shuttle Endeavour in 2008, as well as acted as a trip designer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times precede and carried out 2 spacewalks totting 13 hours as well as 17 mins.An indigenous coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps a bachelor's level in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon State College, Corvallis, and a doctoral degree in Chemical Design from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his career along with NASA, Pettit operated as a team scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.For much more than twenty years, people have actually stayed and also functioned regularly aboard the International Space Station, advancing technology, as well as bring in research discoveries that are not achievable on Earth. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to understand and beat the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and to broaden business chances in reduced Planet orbit. As industrial firms pay attention to offering individual space transport solutions as well as places as part of a strong reduced Earth orbit economic condition, NASA has the capacity to focus additional of its resources on deep area missions to the Moon and also Mars.Obtain cutting information, images and attributes coming from the spaceport station on the station blogging site, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Find Out More regarding International Space 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.