.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of company to the company throughout various plans, including 157 times precede and 3 spacewalks. Cassada additionally is a retired United States Naval force captain and also naval pilot along with greater than two decades of company.Cassada served as fly of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 goal as well as Expedition 68 tour engineer aboard the International Spaceport station, carrying out myriad maintenance, contingency, as well as upgrade activities inside the terminal while additionally supporting manies experiments and modern technology manifestations. His three spacewalks away from the orbiting laboratory totaled more than 21 hours, properly putting up a pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to boost the station's electric capacity. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, also constructed the facilities for a future IROSA installment and also completely repaired a malfunctioning tradition sun range." I desire to extend my honest thankfulness to Josh for his devotion and also company to individual space exploration," said NASA Johnson Room Center Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's additions and success to the innovation of science and also exploration are going to motivate the future generation of explorers, the Artemis production, as well as perk humanity for decades to follow.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada and his crewmates accomplished significant analytical with ground groups, featuring the customization of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to accommodate an extra workers participant in the unlikely event of an unexpected emergency profits, and leveraged the team's several capability and also instruction to make certain continued secure and successful operations for existing and potential crews.In Houston, Cassada functioned as a capsule communicator in NASA's Mission Management Facility as well as assistant to the main of the Astronaut Workplace for spaceport station operations. As a scientist and exam aviator, Cassada likewise brought about the growth of NASA's Business Workers Program and also Orion spacecraft and also represented the Astronaut Workplace in specialized and functional testimonials of scientific practices such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually played a notable job in NASA's delivery of trustworthy as well as cost-effective individual transportation to and from the space station," pointed out Standard Knight, director of flight operations at NASA Johnson. "With his devotion and also dedication to individual spaceflight exploration, Josh's job will definitely continue to push our company onward on our journey back to the Moon, as well as past. Our experts will certainly overlook him and are actually excited to find what his next trip necessitates.".As he transitions coming from federal government service, Cassada will definitely return to the economic sector, focusing on exceptionally reduced illumination discovery innovations with wide as well as developing uses in various areas, including quantum networks and also computing, remote control noticing, long-range communication, semiconductor manufacturing, as well as medical image resolution." I am extremely grateful for my numerous possibilities right here at NASA," Cassada said, "and also specifically to have actually provided along with some of the best amazing people each on and off our planet, completing points that are merely achievable when our experts function and also innovate all together as a staff. As people, we explore. And also each medical journey, whether in a laboratory in the world or in space, needs nerve to explore and advance community. I am actually incredibly privileged to have been neighbored through explorers during the course of my whole career so far as well as going ahead. An expedition might appear intimidating, but it's a lot less therefore when you're well prepared and along with the correct crewmates.".Just before his variety by NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Lesson, Cassada made his doctoral in High Electricity Particle Physics from the College of Rochester, The Big Apple and also was actually an U.S. Navy aviator, instructor pilot, exam fly, as well as coach exam aviator. Throughout his profession, Cassada has accumulated more than 4,000 flight hrs in over fifty various aircraft and also has been awarded several armed forces and civilian awards.Cassada finished from White Bear Lake Location High School in Minnesota in 1991 and received his undergraduate's in Natural science in 1995 from Albion College in Michigan.Learn more concerning International Space Station study and also functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.