.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 firm throughout various courses, including 157 days in space as well as three spacewalks. Cassada also is a retired USA Naval force captain and also marine aviator with much more than two decades of company.Cassada functioned as fly of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 purpose and Expedition 68 air travel designer aboard the International Spaceport station, implementing myriad routine maintenance, backup, and also upgrade activities inside the terminal while additionally helping in numerous experiments and innovation manifestations. His 3 spacewalks away from the orbiting lab amounted to much more than 21 hours, effectively putting up a set of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to enhance the station's power capacity. Cassada, together with crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, additionally set up the framework for a future IROSA installation as well as completely brought back a malfunctioning heritage solar energy variety." I would like to expand my earnest Thanksgiving to Josh for his dedication as well as service to individual space exploration," claimed NASA Johnson Room Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's additions and also success to the development of science and exploration are going to motivate the next generation of explorers, the Artemis production, and also perk humanity for years to follow.".Throughout Exploration 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates finished substantial problem-solving along with ground groups, including the customization of the SpaceX Monster spacecraft to accommodate an extra workers participant in the event of an emergency situation return, and leveraged the crew's several ability and also instruction to make sure continuous safe as well as reliable operations for existing and potential workers.In Houston, Cassada acted as a capsule communicator in NASA's Objective Control Center and also assistant to the main of the Astronaut Office for spaceport station procedures. As a scientist and also test captain, Cassada also resulted in the growth of NASA's Office Workers System and Orion space capsule as well as stood for the Astronaut Office in technological and functional assessments of scientific experiments including the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually played a substantial job in NASA's deliverance of dependable as well as cost-efficient human transit to and from the spaceport station," said Standard Knight, director of air travel functions at NASA Johnson. "Via his commitment as well as devotion to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's work will definitely remain to drive our company forward on our experience back to the Moon, and also beyond. We will definitely miss him and are actually thrilled to observe what his upcoming trip calls for.".As he transitions from government service, Cassada will return to the private sector, servicing incredibly reduced light diagnosis technologies with extensive and also arising applications in numerous locations, featuring quantum systems and also computing, remote control noticing, long-range communication, semiconductor manufacturing, and clinical imaging." I am actually surprisingly happy for my many options here at NASA," Cassada mentioned, "and especially to have actually served together with a number of one of the most incredible individuals both on and off our earth, accomplishing things that are actually only feasible when our team work and also introduce with each other as a crew. As human beings, our team discover. And each scientific journey, whether in a lab in the world or even in space, needs guts to look into as well as advance society. I am actually exceptionally lucky to have actually been actually neighbored through explorers during the course of my whole career so far as well as moving forward. An expedition might seem to be challenging, however it is actually a whole lot less so when you're prepared and also with the right crewmates.".Prior to his option through NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Training class, Cassada got his doctorate in High Energy Particle Natural Science coming from the Educational Institution of Rochester, New York and was an U.S. Navy captain, instructor captain, exam aviator, as well as teacher exam aviator. Throughout his career, Cassada has actually accumulated much more than 4,000 flight hrs in over 50 different aircraft and has actually been actually awarded different army and also noncombatant honors.Cassada graduated coming from White Bear Lake Location High School in Minnesota in 1991 as well as got his bachelor's in Natural science in 1995 from Albion University in Michigan.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station research study and also procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.