.NASA astronaut Don Pettit is available for restricted meeting opportunities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming mission to the International Space Station in September.The virtual meetings will definitely flow reside on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and the firm's web site. Know just how to stream NASA+ by means of a range of platforms including social networking sites.Fascinated media need to send a request absolutely no beyond 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 will launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio will certainly spend approximately six months aboard the periodic lab just before coming back to Planet in the springtime of 2025.During his time in track, Pettit will conduct scientific inspections and innovation presentations to assist prep the workers for future area purposes as well as deliver advantages to individuals on Earth. Pettit will take part in numerous of the hundreds of practices happening throughout his purpose, consisting of examining exactly how spaceflight impacts blood clot, proceeding tests of innovation to create individual stalk tissues precede, as well as adding his special photography skills to the long-running Team Planet Monitorings research of just how The planet is actually changing with time.NASA chose Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. An expert of three spaceflights, he has actually added to integral improvements in innovation as well as demonstrations for human area exploration. He acted as a scientific research police officer for Exploration 6 in 2003, operated the automated arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, as well as functioned as a trip designer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days in space and conducted pair of spacewalks amounting to thirteen hours as well as 17 moments.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores an undergraduate's level in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, and a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering from the Educational Institution of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his profession along with NASA, Pettit operated as a personnel scientist at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For greater than 20 years, human beings have actually resided and also functioned continually aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge, and creating research study advancements that are certainly not achievable in the world. The place is an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as overcome the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and also to increase office possibilities in low The planet track. As business firms concentrate on offering individual space transport companies as well as places as aspect of a robust reduced Planet orbit economic climate, NASA has the capacity to center even more of its resources on deep area objectives to the Moon and Mars.Acquire cutting headlines, photos as well as features from the spaceport station on the station weblog, Instagram, Facebook, as well as X.Find Out More regarding International Spaceport station study as well as 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.