.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA astronaut Josh Cassada resigned Oct. 1, after 11 years of solution to the organization all over a number of programs, featuring 157 days precede and three spacewalks. Cassada also is a retired United States Navy captain and marine pilot with much more than twenty years of solution.Cassada acted as aviator of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 objective and also Exploration 68 air travel engineer aboard the International Spaceport station, performing myriad routine maintenance, emergency, and also upgrade activities inside the terminal while also resulting in hundreds of practices as well as modern technology demonstrations. His three spacewalks away from the orbiting research laboratory totaled more than 21 hrs, successfully installing a set of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the place's electric ability. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, also assembled the infrastructure for a future IROSA installation as well as fully restored a malfunctioning legacy photo voltaic variety." I desire to stretch my genuine thankfulness to Josh for his devotion and service to human area exploration," stated NASA Johnson Room Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments as well as success to the advancement of scientific research as well as exploration are going to inspire the newest generation of explorers, the Artemis generation, and perk humankind for decades to find.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates completed significant analytic with ground crews, including the adjustment of the SpaceX Dragon space capsule to accommodate an extra staff participant in case of an emergency situation return, and also leveraged the team's several skill sets and also instruction to make certain continuous safe and also reliable functions for current and future staffs.In Houston, Cassada served as a capsule communicator in NASA's Purpose Command Center and aide to the main of the Rocketeer Workplace for spaceport station operations. As a physicist and also exam fly, Cassada likewise contributed to the growth of NASA's Business Team Course and Orion spacecraft and also embodied the Rocketeer Workplace in technological as well as working reviews of medical practices such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually played a considerable job in NASA's saving of trustworthy and also affordable human transportation to and also coming from the spaceport station," pointed out Standard Knight, director of tour procedures at NASA Johnson. "By means of his commitment as well as commitment to human spaceflight expedition, Josh's job will remain to push our company forward on our quest back to the Moon, as well as past. Our company will overlook him and also are excited to view what his upcoming trip requires.".As he transitions from federal government solution, Cassada will certainly go back to the private sector, working with incredibly low light diagnosis modern technologies with broad as well as surfacing uses in numerous locations, including quantum systems as well as computing, distant noticing, long-range communication, semiconductor manufacturing, and also medical imaging." I am incredibly happy for my lots of possibilities listed here at NASA," Cassada pointed out, "as well as especially to have actually served together with a number of the best outstanding individuals each on as well as off our planet, completing things that are actually just achievable when our experts function and introduce with each other as a crew. As human beings, our experts look into. And also each medical experience, whether in a laboratory in the world or precede, needs tenacity to explore and also develop community. I am astonishingly privileged to have actually been actually bordered through travelers in the course of my entire occupation thus far as well as going ahead. An expedition might appear intimidating, but it's a great deal much less thus when you're equipped and also along with the right crewmates.".Just before his selection by NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Training class, Cassada made his doctorate in High Energy Fragment Natural Science coming from the University of Rochester, The Big Apple and also was actually an U.S. Naval force captain, teacher fly, test fly, and coach test fly. Throughout his job, Cassada has collected more than 4,000 tour hrs in over 50 different airplane and has actually been actually granted a variety of armed forces as well as private honors.Cassada got a degree coming from White Bear Lake Location Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 as well as received his bachelor's in Natural science in 1995 from Albion University in Michigan.Learn more concerning International Space Station investigation and operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.