.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is actually accessible for restricted meeting options beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to review his upcoming mission to the International Spaceport Station in September.The digital meetings will stream live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and also the firm's web site. Know exactly how to stream NASA+ with a wide array of systems featuring social networks.Fascinated media need to send a request zero later than 12 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.Pettit will definitely launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 space capsule, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The triad will definitely invest approximately six months aboard the orbital research laboratory prior to coming back to The planet in the spring of 2025.In the course of his attend orbit, Pettit will conduct clinical inspections and also innovation demonstrations to aid prep the staff for potential room objectives and also offer benefits to folks in the world. Pettit will certainly take part in several of the thousands of experiments happening in the course of his goal, consisting of analyzing exactly how spaceflight affects blood clotting, continuing tests of innovation to make human stalk cells precede, as well as adding his distinct digital photography capabilities to the long-running Crew Earth Reviews research of just how Earth is actually changing as time go on.NASA selected Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A veteran of 3 spaceflights, he has actually supported integral innovations in technology and also demonstrations for individual space exploration. He worked as a scientific research police officer for Exploration 6 in 2003, functioned the automated upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Effort in 2008, as well as functioned as a flight engineer for Exploration 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 times in space and conducted two spacewalks completing thirteen hours as well as 17 mins.A native from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit keeps an undergraduate's degree in Chemical Engineering coming from Oregon Condition College, Corvallis, and also a doctoral level in Chemical Design coming from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his career along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a workers researcher at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.For more than two decades, humans have actually stayed as well as operated continually aboard the International Spaceport station, evolving scientific knowledge, and also creating research advances that are actually not achievable on Earth. The station is a vital testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as conquer the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and also to extend industrial chances in reduced Earth track. As business providers focus on supplying human area transit solutions and also places as aspect of a sturdy reduced The planet track economic situation, NASA is able to concentrate even more of its resources on deep-seated area goals to the Moon as well as Mars.Get breaking headlines, photos and also features coming from the spaceport station on the place weblog, Instagram, Facebook, and also X.Find Out More concerning International Space Station research 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 Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.