.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA astronaut Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of service to the company around multiple programs, including 157 times in space and 3 spacewalks. Cassada likewise is a retired USA Navy captain and marine pilot with much more than twenty years of service.Cassada worked as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission as well as Exploration 68 tour engineer aboard the International Space Station, carrying out myriad servicing, backup, and also upgrade tasks inside the terminal while additionally adding to numerous experiments and also innovation demonstrations. His three spacewalks away from the orbiting laboratory completed much more than 21 hrs, successfully putting up a pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the station's power capability. Cassada, together with crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, also put together the framework for a potential IROSA setup and also completely repaired a malfunctioning tradition sunlight variety." I want to prolong my truthful gratefulness to Josh for his devotion and also solution to human space expedition," mentioned NASA Johnson Area Facility Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions and also achievements to the improvement of science as well as expedition will influence the newest generation of travelers, the Artemis generation, as well as benefit humanity for many years to come.".Throughout Exploration 68, Cassada and also his crewmates accomplished significant problem-solving with ground groups, consisting of the adjustment of the SpaceX Monster spacecraft to accommodate an extra team participant in the event of an emergency return, as well as leveraged the crew's a variety of skill sets and training to make certain continuous secure and also efficient operations for current as well as potential crews.In Houston, Cassada worked as a capsule communicator in NASA's Goal Command Center as well as assistant to the main of the Astronaut Office for space station functions. As a physicist and exam aviator, Cassada additionally supported the advancement of NASA's Business Workers Program as well as Orion spacecraft and also stood for the Rocketeer Workplace in specialized and also working evaluations of medical experiments such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and also Cold Atom Lab." Josh has participated in a substantial job in NASA's saving of trustworthy and also cost-efficient human transport to as well as coming from the spaceport station," pointed out Rule Knight, director of tour procedures at NASA Johnson. "Via his dedication as well as devotion to human spaceflight expedition, Josh's job will continue to drive our team onward on our quest back to the Moon, and also past. Our team will skip him and also are actually excited to view what his next adventure entails.".As he transitions from authorities company, Cassada is going to go back to the private sector, working with remarkably reduced lighting diagnosis modern technologies with broad and also surfacing requests in different regions, including quantum systems and also computer, remote noticing, long-range interaction, semiconductor manufacturing, and health care imaging." I am actually surprisingly thankful for my lots of opportunities below at NASA," Cassada claimed, "and particularly to have offered along with several of the absolute most impressive people each on and off our earth, accomplishing points that are actually only feasible when our company work and innovate together as a staff. As people, our team look into. And each medical journey, whether in a lab on Earth or even precede, demands courage to discover and advance community. I am actually unbelievably fortunate to have actually been actually encompassed by explorers throughout my whole entire profession until now and going ahead. An expedition might appear difficult, however it is actually a great deal less therefore when you are actually well prepared and also with the ideal crewmates.".Just before his selection by NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Training class, Cassada got his doctorate in High Energy Particle Physics coming from the University of Rochester, New York and was actually an USA Navy pilot, coach aviator, examination aviator, and coach test pilot. Throughout his career, Cassada has collected more than 4,000 air travel hrs in over fifty different aircraft and also has been rewarded various armed forces as well as private awards.Cassada finished from White Bear Lake Region High School in Minnesota in 1991 and also got his undergraduate's in Natural science in 1995 from Albion University in Michigan.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station research study and procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.