.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada resigned Oct. 1, after 11 years of company to the company across several plans, consisting of 157 times in space as well as three spacewalks. Cassada likewise is a retired USA Navy captain as well as naval aviator along with more than twenty years of service.Cassada acted as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission as well as Trip 68 tour developer aboard the International Spaceport station, executing myriad upkeep, contingency, and upgrade activities inside the terminal while also bring about dozens practices and also innovation demonstrations. His three spacewalks beyond the orbiting laboratory completed more than 21 hours, efficiently setting up a set of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to improve the station's electrical capacity. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, also put together the framework for a future IROSA setup as well as entirely repaired a malfunctioning legacy photovoltaic range." I want to expand my sincere gratefulness to Josh for his dedication and also company to human space expedition," claimed NASA Johnson Space Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions and success to the advancement of scientific research and also exploration will influence the future generation of travelers, the Artemis generation, and also advantage humankind for decades to come.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada and also his crewmates finished comprehensive analytical with ground staffs, including the customization of the SpaceX Dragon space capsule to fit an additional staff participant in the unlikely event of an emergency profits, and leveraged the workers's different capability and instruction to make certain continued risk-free as well as helpful functions for current as well as potential crews.In Houston, Cassada acted as a capsule communicator in NASA's Goal Command Facility and also associate to the main of the Rocketeer Workplace for space station operations. As a scientist as well as exam pilot, Cassada likewise resulted in the development of NASA's Commercial Team Plan and Orion space capsule and represented the Rocketeer Workplace in technical and also working assessments of medical practices like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Weather Atom Lab." Josh has actually played a notable duty in NASA's deliverance of dependable and affordable individual transport to as well as from the space station," claimed Norm Knight, director of air travel functions at NASA Johnson. "By means of his devotion and also commitment to individual spaceflight expedition, Josh's work will definitely remain to press us onward on our experience back to the Moon, and past. Our experts will overlook him and are actually delighted to observe what his following quest necessitates.".As he transitions coming from government solution, Cassada will certainly come back to the private sector, dealing with remarkably low light diagnosis technologies with broad and also developing applications in numerous locations, featuring quantum systems as well as processing, remote sensing, long-range interaction, semiconductor production, and also clinical image resolution." I am actually incredibly grateful for my many options here at NASA," Cassada claimed, "and also particularly to have actually offered along with some of the absolute most outstanding people each on as well as off our planet, completing things that are actually simply possible when we operate and also introduce all together as a staff. As humans, our team explore. As well as each scientific experience, whether in a laboratory on Earth or even in space, requires courage to discover as well as advance culture. I am incredibly fortunate to have actually been surrounded by travelers throughout my whole entire career thus far as well as going ahead. A trip may seem to be complicated, but it is actually a great deal less so when you're prepared as well as with the best crewmates.".Before his assortment through NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Training class, Cassada made his doctorate in High Power Bit Natural Science from the Educational Institution of Rochester, The Big Apple and was actually an U.S. Navy captain, instructor captain, test aviator, and also coach exam pilot. Throughout his job, Cassada has collected much more than 4,000 trip hours in over fifty various aircraft and has been actually granted various army and also private honors.Cassada earned a degree from White Bear Pond Region High School in Minnesota in 1991 and also obtained his bachelor's in Natural science in 1995 from Albion University in Michigan.Find out more regarding International Spaceport station analysis and also operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.