.NASA rocketeer Don Pettit is on call for restricted meeting opportunities starting at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 16, to explain his upcoming purpose to the International Spaceport Station in September.The digital meetings will stream survive NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA application, and also the agency's internet site. Find out exactly how to flow NASA+ via an assortment of systems consisting of social media.Intrigued media should send an ask for zero 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 definitely introduce on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner. The trio will definitely devote around 6 months aboard the orbital research laboratory prior to going back to Earth in the springtime of 2025.In the course of his time in orbit, Pettit will perform clinical examinations as well as technology demonstrations to aid prep the crew for future space missions as well as deliver perks to individuals on Earth. Pettit is going to participate in numerous of the manies practices taking place throughout his goal, including researching exactly how spaceflight impacts blood clotting, proceeding examinations of technology to generate individual stalk tissues precede, and also adding his one-of-a-kind digital photography abilities to the long-running Team Planet Reviews research of how Planet is changing eventually.NASA chose Pettit as an astronaut in 1996. A veteran of 3 spaceflights, he has helped in important improvements in technology and also exhibitions for individual space exploration. He worked as a scientific research police officer for Trip 6 in 2003, functioned the robotic upper arm for STS-126 space capsule Endeavour in 2008, as well as acted as a trip designer for Trip 30/31 in 2012. Pettit has logged 370 days in space and also performed pair of spacewalks completing 13 hours and also 17 minutes.A native coming from Silverton, Oregon, Pettit stores a bachelor's level in Chemical Design from Oregon Condition Educational Institution, Corvallis, and also a doctoral level in Chemical Engineering from the College of Arizona, Tucson. Just before his occupation along with NASA, Pettit functioned as a personnel expert at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory in New Mexico.For greater than twenty years, people have actually stayed and worked continually aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing accurate knowledge, as well as making research study developments that are certainly not possible in the world. The station is an important testbed for NASA to know and get over the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow office possibilities in low Earth track. As commercial providers focus on offering individual room transit solutions and locations as part of a robust low Earth orbit economy, NASA is able to center additional of its own sources on deep area objectives to the Moon and Mars.Receive breaking news, pictures as well as features coming from the space station on the station weblog, Instagram, Facebook, and X.Learn more regarding International Spaceport 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 Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.