.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 organization all over several plans, featuring 157 times in space and also three spacewalks. Cassada likewise is actually a retired USA Navy leader and naval pilot with greater than 20 years of company.Cassada functioned as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission as well as Trip 68 air travel designer aboard the International Spaceport station, carrying out myriad routine maintenance, emergency, and also upgrade activities inside the station while also adding to numerous experiments and technology manifestations. His three spacewalks beyond the orbiting lab totted much more than 21 hours, efficiently putting up a pair of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the station's electrical capability. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, also set up the infrastructure for a future IROSA installment as well as totally rejuvenated a malfunctioning heritage sunlight assortment." I would like to stretch my truthful Thanksgiving to Josh for his dedication and solution to individual space exploration," stated NASA Johnson Room Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments and also success to the advancement of science and also expedition will certainly influence the newest generation of explorers, the Artemis creation, as well as perk humankind for years ahead.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada and also his crewmates accomplished substantial analytic with ground groups, including the customization of the SpaceX Dragon space capsule to accommodate an additional staff participant in case of an emergency situation profits, as well as leveraged the staff's different skill sets as well as instruction to ensure continued secure as well as effective operations for present and also future teams.In Houston, Cassada served as a pill communicator in NASA's Mission Management Facility as well as assistant to the principal of the Astronaut Office for space station functions. As a scientist and test captain, Cassada also brought about the progression of NASA's Business Workers Course and also Orion space probe and stood for the Astronaut Workplace in specialized and operational testimonials of medical experiments such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Atom Lab." Josh has participated in a significant part in NASA's saving of reliable as well as cost-effective individual transport to and also from the spaceport station," mentioned Standard Knight, director of flight procedures at NASA Johnson. "Via his devotion as well as devotion to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's work will certainly remain to push our company ahead on our quest back to the Moon, as well as beyond. Our experts will certainly miss him as well as are excited to observe what his next adventure entails.".As he transitions from federal government solution, Cassada will return to the economic sector, working on exceptionally reduced illumination detection technologies along with vast as well as developing applications in a variety of regions, including quantum networks and also computing, distant sensing, long-range communication, semiconductor manufacturing, as well as health care imaging." I am actually exceptionally happy for my lots of possibilities listed here at NASA," Cassada mentioned, "and especially to have offered together with several of the best fantastic people both on and also off our earth, performing factors that are only possible when our experts work and introduce all together as a crew. As human beings, we discover. And each scientific journey, whether in a lab on Earth or in space, demands tenacity to check out and advance culture. I am actually very privileged to have been actually surrounded through travelers during my entire job so far as well as going forward. An exploration might seem daunting, but it is actually a great deal less so when you are actually well prepared and also along with the correct crewmates.".Just before his variety through NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Lesson, Cassada got his doctorate in High Electricity Fragment Physics coming from the College of Rochester, New York City and also was actually a united state Naval force aviator, instructor aviator, exam pilot, as well as instructor examination pilot. Throughout his job, Cassada has actually built up greater than 4,000 trip hrs in over 50 different airplane as well as has been actually granted numerous army and private honors.Cassada earned a degree coming from White Bear Lake Location High School in Minnesota in 1991 as well as acquired his undergraduate's in Physics in 1995 coming from Albion University in Michigan.Learn more concerning International Space Station investigation and procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.