.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of solution to the agency all over multiple plans, including 157 times precede and also 3 spacewalks. Cassada likewise is actually a retired United States Naval force captain and marine flyer along with more than two decades of service.Cassada functioned as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 purpose and also Exploration 68 flight developer aboard the International Spaceport station, performing myriad upkeep, emergency, and also upgrade tasks inside the terminal while also resulting in manies experiments as well as modern technology demonstrations. His 3 spacewalks away from the orbiting research laboratory amounted to greater than 21 hrs, successfully mounting a pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to boost the place's electrical capability. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, additionally put together the framework for a potential IROSA installment as well as entirely recovered a malfunctioning legacy solar energy collection." I would like to stretch my earnest appreciation to Josh for his commitment and company to human room expedition," said NASA Johnson Room Center Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions and also success to the advancement of scientific research as well as expedition will inspire the future generation of explorers, the Artemis production, and also benefit humanity for many years to follow.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada and also his crewmates completed extensive problem-solving with ground crews, consisting of the alteration of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to suit an added team member in the event of an urgent come back, as well as leveraged the workers's various skill sets as well as instruction to guarantee ongoing secure as well as helpful functions for present as well as potential staffs.In Houston, Cassada worked as a pill communicator in NASA's Goal Management Facility and aide to the principal of the Rocketeer Office for space station operations. As a scientist and also exam fly, Cassada additionally added to the growth of NASA's Business Staff Plan and Orion spacecraft as well as exemplified the Astronaut Office in technological as well as functional evaluations of medical practices like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually participated in a notable function in NASA's saving of trusted and cost-efficient human transit to as well as from the spaceport station," pointed out Rule Knight, supervisor of tour procedures at NASA Johnson. "Through his dedication and dedication to individual spaceflight exploration, Josh's job will continue to drive us onward on our trip back to the Moon, and past. Our company will certainly skip him as well as are delighted to find what his upcoming quest involves.".As he transitions from government service, Cassada will certainly go back to the private sector, focusing on exceptionally reduced light diagnosis technologies along with extensive and emerging requests in various regions, consisting of quantum networks and computing, remote control picking up, long-range communication, semiconductor production, and also clinical image resolution." I am astonishingly thankful for my many possibilities listed below at NASA," Cassada claimed, "as well as specifically to have provided along with a few of the best impressive people both on as well as off our earth, completing things that are simply feasible when our company function and also introduce together as a crew. As humans, our experts discover. And also each medical experience, whether in a laboratory on Earth or even in space, needs guts to explore as well as advance community. I am actually incredibly privileged to have been actually surrounded through travelers throughout my entire job thus far and also going ahead. A trip may seem overwhelming, yet it is actually a whole lot less thus when you're ready as well as with the ideal crewmates.".Before his choice by NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Training class, Cassada gained his doctoral in High Power Fragment Natural Science coming from the College of Rochester, Nyc and also was an U.S. Naval force aviator, instructor captain, test aviator, and coach examination pilot. Throughout his job, Cassada has accumulated greater than 4,000 air travel hours in over fifty different airplane and also has actually been actually granted a variety of army and also civilian awards.Cassada earned a degree coming from White Bear Lake Region Senior High School in Minnesota in 1991 and received his undergraduate's in Natural science in 1995 from Albion University in Michigan.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station research as well as procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.