.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada resigned Oct. 1, after 11 years of company to the agency across several courses, consisting of 157 days precede and also three spacewalks. Cassada likewise is actually a retired United States Navy leader and naval aviator with much more than two decades of solution.Cassada functioned as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 purpose and Exploration 68 trip developer aboard the International Space Station, implementing myriad maintenance, contingency, and also upgrade activities inside the station while also helping in manies experiments as well as innovation demonstrations. His 3 spacewalks outside of the orbiting lab completed greater than 21 hours, properly putting up a set of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the place's electrical capability. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, additionally set up the commercial infrastructure for a potential IROSA installation and also fully restored a malfunctioning tradition photo voltaic selection." I would like to prolong my genuine Thanksgiving to Josh for his dedication as well as service to human area exploration," claimed NASA Johnson Room Facility Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions and also accomplishments to the improvement of science and also exploration are going to influence the future generation of explorers, the Artemis production, as well as advantage humankind for years to come.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada and also his crewmates finished significant analytical with ground groups, featuring the modification of the SpaceX Monster spacecraft to accommodate an extra crew participant in the unlikely event of an urgent profits, and also leveraged the staff's various capability as well as training to make sure continuous risk-free as well as efficient operations for current and potential crews.In Houston, Cassada functioned as a pill communicator in NASA's Mission Command Facility as well as associate to the principal of the Astronaut Workplace for spaceport station procedures. As a scientist and test pilot, Cassada also brought about the growth of NASA's Office Staff Plan and Orion spacecraft and worked with the Astronaut Workplace in technological and also operational testimonials of scientific experiments like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and also Cold Weather Atom Lab." Josh has actually participated in a substantial duty in NASA's deliverance of reliable and also economical individual transit to and coming from the spaceport station," stated Norm Knight, supervisor of flight operations at NASA Johnson. "Through his commitment and devotion to individual spaceflight expedition, Josh's job will remain to push us ahead on our trip back to the Moon, and beyond. Our company will certainly skip him and also are actually excited to find what his next journey calls for.".As he transitions from government service, Cassada is going to go back to the economic sector, working on exceptionally low illumination diagnosis innovations along with vast as well as arising treatments in various locations, including quantum systems and processing, remote noticing, long-range interaction, semiconductor production, as well as health care image resolution." I am actually exceptionally happy for my many chances below at NASA," Cassada stated, "and also specifically to have actually provided together with a number of one of the most incredible people each on as well as off our world, accomplishing things that are just feasible when we operate and introduce together as a group. As humans, our team discover. And each scientific adventure, whether in a lab on Earth or precede, demands nerve to look into and advance society. I am actually incredibly privileged to have actually been actually encompassed through explorers during my entire occupation so far as well as going forward. An expedition may appear challenging, however it's a great deal much less thus when you are actually ready and along with the ideal crewmates.".Just before his option by NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Class, Cassada gained his doctorate in High Electricity Bit Physics from the University of Rochester, New York City and also was actually an USA Navy captain, trainer aviator, test fly, and also trainer examination captain. Throughout his profession, Cassada has accumulated greater than 4,000 flight hrs in over fifty different aircraft as well as has actually been rewarded several armed forces and also private awards.Cassada got a degree from White Bear Lake Place Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 as well as got his bachelor's in Physics in 1995 coming from Albion University in Michigan.Learn more about International Spaceport station research study and also functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.