.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Relinquish NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of company to the firm across several courses, featuring 157 days precede as well as 3 spacewalks. Cassada likewise is actually a retired United States Navy leader and also marine flyer with greater than two decades of solution.Cassada worked as aviator of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 goal and also Exploration 68 air travel developer aboard the International Space Station, executing myriad servicing, emergency, and also upgrade tasks inside the terminal while additionally supporting numerous experiments and also innovation manifestations. His three spacewalks outside of the orbiting lab totaled much more than 21 hours, efficiently installing a pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to enhance the station's power ability. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, also assembled the framework for a potential IROSA installment and completely repaired a malfunctioning heritage solar energy variety." I want to prolong my sincere thankfulness to Josh for his commitment as well as solution to human space expedition," stated NASA Johnson Space Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions as well as achievements to the improvement of science and also expedition will certainly inspire the future generation of explorers, the Artemis creation, and also advantage mankind for years to find.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates finished substantial analytical along with ground groups, including the customization of the SpaceX Monster spacecraft to fit an extra staff participant in the event of an unexpected emergency come back, and leveraged the workers's a variety of ability and training to guarantee continued safe and efficient procedures for existing and potential crews.In Houston, Cassada served as a pill communicator in NASA's Goal Control Center as well as aide to the chief of the Astronaut Workplace for space station operations. As a physicist and also test fly, Cassada additionally helped in the development of NASA's Commercial Crew Course and Orion space probe and also represented the Astronaut Workplace in technological and working assessments of medical experiments such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and also Cold Atom Lab." Josh has actually played a significant part in NASA's deliverance of reliable as well as cost-efficient human transportation to and also coming from the space station," mentioned Rule Knight, director of air travel procedures at NASA Johnson. "Through his dedication and devotion to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's work are going to continue to press us onward on our journey back to the Moon, and also past. Our team will definitely skip him as well as are excited to observe what his next quest requires.".As he transitions coming from authorities solution, Cassada will certainly return to the economic sector, dealing with extremely low illumination diagnosis modern technologies along with broad and also developing treatments in numerous places, including quantum networks and also processing, distant picking up, long-range interaction, semiconductor manufacturing, and medical imaging." I am astonishingly grateful for my many opportunities right here at NASA," Cassada claimed, "and specifically to have offered together with a few of the most impressive people both on and off our world, accomplishing traits that are actually only achievable when we function as well as introduce with each other as a crew. As people, our company discover. And also each medical experience, whether in a lab on Earth or even in space, requires nerve to check out and advance society. I am exceptionally lucky to have been encompassed by travelers during my entire profession until now and also moving forward. An exploration may appear overwhelming, yet it is actually a great deal less so when you're ready and also with the right crewmates.".Just before his assortment by NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Course, Cassada made his doctorate in High Electricity Particle Natural Science from the College of Rochester, New York as well as was an U.S. Naval force pilot, instructor captain, examination fly, and also instructor exam aviator. Throughout his profession, Cassada has actually accumulated much more than 4,000 air travel hrs in over 50 various plane and also has actually been granted various army and civilian honors.Cassada graduated from White Bear Lake Region Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 as well as acquired his bachelor's in Physics in 1995 coming from Albion College in Michigan.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station analysis as well as functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.