.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of service to the organization all over various systems, featuring 157 days precede as well as 3 spacewalks. Cassada also is a retired USA Navy leader and also naval pilot along with much more than two decades of service.Cassada functioned as aviator of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 goal and also Trip 68 air travel engineer aboard the International Spaceport station, executing myriad maintenance, contingency, as well as upgrade tasks inside the station while additionally supporting manies practices and also modern technology demonstrations. His 3 spacewalks away from the orbiting research laboratory amounted to much more than 21 hrs, effectively putting up a set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to enhance the place's power capacity. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, likewise assembled the facilities for a future IROSA setup as well as entirely repaired a malfunctioning heritage solar energy variety." I desire to extend my honest gratefulness to Josh for his commitment and company to human area expedition," stated NASA Johnson Area Facility Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments and accomplishments to the advancement of science and also expedition will certainly motivate the next generation of explorers, the Artemis production, and advantage humanity for years ahead.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates completed extensive analytical along with ground teams, including the adjustment of the SpaceX Monster space probe to fit an additional workers member in case of an unexpected emergency come back, and leveraged the crew's numerous capability and training to guarantee continued safe and also successful procedures for current and also future staffs.In Houston, Cassada acted as a pill communicator in NASA's Mission Management Facility and also assistant to the main of the Rocketeer Workplace for spaceport station procedures. As a physicist and exam aviator, Cassada also brought about the progression of NASA's Commercial Workers Program and Orion space capsule as well as represented the Rocketeer Workplace in specialized as well as functional testimonials of medical experiments like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Atom Lab." Josh has participated in a substantial part in NASA's saving of reliable and affordable individual transit to and also coming from the space station," said Rule Knight, director of air travel procedures at NASA Johnson. "Via his dedication and dedication to human spaceflight expedition, Josh's job will continue to drive our company onward on our journey back to the Moon, as well as beyond. Our experts are going to skip him and are actually delighted to observe what his next experience involves.".As he transitions from authorities company, Cassada will return to the private sector, dealing with incredibly reduced light discovery technologies along with extensive as well as developing uses in several areas, consisting of quantum networks as well as processing, remote sensing, long-range interaction, semiconductor manufacturing, as well as clinical imaging." I am actually very happy for my many chances listed here at NASA," Cassada claimed, "as well as specifically to have served alongside some of the most fantastic people both on and also off our planet, performing traits that are actually simply possible when our experts operate and also innovate with each other as a crew. As humans, our experts discover. And each scientific adventure, whether in a laboratory on Earth or precede, requires nerve to discover as well as advance community. I am exceptionally lucky to have actually been actually encompassed through explorers during my whole career up until now and going forward. A trip might seem to be complicated, yet it's a great deal much less thus when you're prepared as well as with the ideal crewmates.".Prior to his selection through NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Training class, Cassada gained his doctorate in High Energy Bit Natural Science from the Educational Institution of Rochester, New York City and also was actually a united state Naval force pilot, coach fly, examination captain, as well as teacher test aviator. Throughout his career, Cassada has built up more than 4,000 flight hrs in over 50 different plane and also has been actually granted various army as well as civilian honors.Cassada finished coming from White Bear Pond Area Senior High School in Minnesota in 1991 and also acquired his undergraduate's in Physics in 1995 coming from Albion University in Michigan.Learn more about International Spaceport station research study and also procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.