.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is on call for restricted meeting opportunities beginning at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to discuss his upcoming goal to the International Spaceport Station in September.The digital meetings will flow live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA application, and also the firm's site. Know how to flow NASA+ by means of a range of systems featuring social networking sites.Fascinated media need to submit a request no later than 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 certainly release on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner. The triad will devote about six months aboard the orbital lab prior to coming back to Planet in the spring season of 2025.In the course of his attend orbit, Pettit is going to administer clinical inspections and technology demos to assist prep the crew for potential space purposes and deliver advantages to people in the world. Pettit will certainly participate in several of the numerous experiments taking place throughout his objective, consisting of analyzing how spaceflight affects blood clotting, proceeding examinations of innovation to create human stem cells in space, as well as providing his one-of-a-kind photography abilities to the long-running Workers The planet Observations study of exactly how The planet is modifying eventually.NASA selected Pettit as a rocketeer in 1996. A professional of three spaceflights, he has added to essential improvements in innovation and also exhibitions for individual room exploration. He functioned as a scientific research policeman for Expedition 6 in 2003, functioned the robotic upper arm for STS-126 space shuttle Effort in 2008, as well as functioned as a trip engineer for Expedition 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days in space and also conducted 2 spacewalks totting 13 hrs as well as 17 mins.An indigenous from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's level in Chemical Engineering from Oregon Condition University, Corvallis, as well as a doctorate level in Chemical Engineering from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his job along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a workers researcher at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For more than two decades, humans have actually stayed and worked constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating technology, as well as bring in study innovations that are actually certainly not achievable in the world. The station is actually a vital testbed for NASA to comprehend and get rid of the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight as well as to broaden office opportunities in low Earth track. As business providers focus on giving individual space transit services as well as destinations as component of a sturdy reduced The planet track economic condition, NASA has the capacity to concentrate more of its own information on deeper area objectives to the Moon and also Mars.Get breaking headlines, photos and functions from the space station on the place blog, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station study 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 Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.