.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada resigned Oct. 1, after 11 years of solution to the company around various programs, featuring 157 days precede and three spacewalks. Cassada additionally is a retired USA Naval force captain as well as naval pilot with more than two decades of company.Cassada functioned as pilot of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 objective and also Trip 68 flight engineer aboard the International Space Station, executing myriad upkeep, contingency, and also upgrade activities inside the station while additionally helping in dozens experiments as well as modern technology manifestations. His 3 spacewalks beyond the orbiting lab totaled more than 21 hours, efficiently putting up a pair of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to boost the station's electrical capability. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, additionally set up the commercial infrastructure for a potential IROSA setup as well as completely repaired a malfunctioning heritage photovoltaic array." I would like to extend my genuine gratefulness to Josh for his commitment and also company to individual space expedition," claimed NASA Johnson Space Facility Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions and also achievements to the innovation of science as well as exploration will certainly inspire the newest generation of explorers, the Artemis production, and benefit mankind for many years to come.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates accomplished considerable analytical along with ground crews, consisting of the adjustment of the SpaceX Dragon space probe to fit an extra crew member in the unlikely event of an emergency profits, and also leveraged the staff's several skill sets as well as instruction to ensure continuous safe and helpful procedures for current as well as future crews.In Houston, Cassada served as a capsule communicator in NASA's Goal Control Center and also assistant to the chief of the Rocketeer Office for space station procedures. As a physicist as well as exam fly, Cassada additionally added to the progression of NASA's Office Crew Plan and also Orion space probe and exemplified the Astronaut Office in technological as well as operational reviews of scientific practices including the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has participated in a significant function in NASA's deliverance of dependable and affordable individual transit to and coming from the space station," mentioned Standard Knight, supervisor of tour functions at NASA Johnson. "With his commitment as well as dedication to human spaceflight expedition, Josh's job are going to remain to drive our company forward on our trip back to the Moon, and beyond. Our experts will definitely overlook him as well as are actually excited to view what his following adventure calls for.".As he transitions from authorities service, Cassada is going to return to the private sector, working on remarkably reduced lighting detection modern technologies along with broad and arising applications in different areas, including quantum networks and processing, remote noticing, long-range interaction, semiconductor manufacturing, and health care imaging." I am actually astonishingly happy for my lots of options listed here at NASA," Cassada said, "as well as especially to have offered alongside a few of the most amazing individuals each on as well as off our earth, performing traits that are actually only possible when our company operate and also introduce together as a team. As people, our company look into. And also each medical journey, whether in a laboratory in the world or in space, requires courage to discover as well as develop community. I am actually exceptionally blessed to have actually been actually encompassed through travelers throughout my whole profession up until now and going ahead. An exploration may seem intimidating, however it's a whole lot less thus when you are actually ready and also with the ideal crewmates.".Just before his choice through NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Course, Cassada gained his doctoral in High Energy Bit Physics from the College of Rochester, Nyc and also was an U.S. Navy fly, instructor captain, examination aviator, and also trainer test captain. Throughout his occupation, Cassada has accumulated much more than 4,000 tour hrs in over 50 different airplane and also has been rewarded different army and private honors.Cassada finished coming from White Bear Lake Region Senior High School in Minnesota in 1991 as well as got his undergraduate's in Physics in 1995 coming from Albion University in Michigan.Discover more about International Space Station analysis and functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.