.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 firm throughout various plans, consisting of 157 days precede and also three spacewalks. Cassada likewise is a retired USA Naval force leader and marine flyer with much more than 20 years of solution.Cassada worked as aviator of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 objective and also Exploration 68 trip developer aboard the International Space Station, executing myriad maintenance, backup, and also upgrade activities inside the station while likewise adding to manies practices and technology demonstrations. His 3 spacewalks beyond the orbiting research laboratory totaled greater than 21 hours, efficiently putting up a pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to enhance the place's electric ability. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, additionally constructed the structure for a potential IROSA installation and also fully rejuvenated a malfunctioning tradition photovoltaic selection." I intend to prolong my earnest Thanksgiving to Josh for his dedication as well as service to individual room exploration," stated NASA Johnson Room Facility Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions as well as success to the development of scientific research and exploration are going to encourage the newest generation of travelers, the Artemis production, and advantage humankind for many years to follow.".Throughout Exploration 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates completed significant analytical with ground crews, including the customization of the SpaceX Dragon space probe to accommodate an extra crew participant in case of an unexpected emergency profits, and leveraged the crew's a variety of skill sets and also training to guarantee continued secure and also reliable operations for present and also potential crews.In Houston, Cassada worked as a pill communicator in NASA's Objective Management Center and also associate to the main of the Rocketeer Workplace for space station procedures. As a physicist as well as exam aviator, Cassada also added to the development of NASA's Business Workers Plan as well as Orion space probe and embodied the Astronaut Workplace in technological as well as functional testimonials of scientific experiments such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has participated in a significant job in NASA's delivery of trustworthy and also cost-efficient individual transportation to and also coming from the spaceport station," pointed out Standard Knight, supervisor of flight procedures at NASA Johnson. "Through his dedication as well as commitment to human spaceflight expedition, Josh's work are going to continue to press us onward on our experience back to the Moon, and also beyond. Our team are going to overlook him and are actually excited to observe what his following experience includes.".As he transitions coming from federal government solution, Cassada will definitely return to the economic sector, working with very low light discovery modern technologies along with wide and arising requests in various locations, consisting of quantum systems and also computer, remote sensing, long-range interaction, semiconductor manufacturing, and also medical image resolution." I am unbelievably grateful for my numerous opportunities listed here at NASA," Cassada claimed, "and also specifically to have actually served along with some of one of the most outstanding people each on and off our world, accomplishing factors that are merely possible when our experts operate and also innovate together as a team. As human beings, our company explore. And each medical experience, whether in a laboratory on Earth or even in space, calls for courage to look into as well as advance community. I am very fortunate to have actually been actually encompassed through travelers during my whole career thus far as well as going forward. An exploration might appear difficult, however it is actually a great deal much less so when you are actually ready and with the correct crewmates.".Before his selection by NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Training class, Cassada gained his doctoral in High Power Fragment Physics from the College of Rochester, Nyc and was actually an U.S. Navy aviator, trainer fly, examination fly, as well as instructor exam captain. Throughout his job, Cassada has built up much more than 4,000 trip hours in over fifty various aircraft and also has been actually granted numerous army and also noncombatant awards.Cassada graduated coming from White Bear Lake Area Senior High School in Minnesota in 1991 and obtained his bachelor's in Physics in 1995 from Albion College in Michigan.Find out more about International Spaceport station research study as well as procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.