.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of company to the organization around numerous courses, featuring 157 times precede as well as 3 spacewalks. Cassada likewise is actually a retired USA Navy leader as well as naval aviator along with more than two decades of solution.Cassada acted as aviator of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission as well as Expedition 68 trip developer aboard the International Space Station, implementing myriad maintenance, backup, and upgrade activities inside the terminal while additionally contributing to manies experiments and also innovation manifestations. His three spacewalks outside of the orbiting lab amounted to more than 21 hrs, properly putting up a set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the place's electrical ability. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, likewise assembled the structure for a potential IROSA installment as well as fully brought back a malfunctioning legacy photovoltaic collection." I wish to stretch my sincere appreciation to Josh for his dedication as well as solution to human space exploration," said NASA Johnson Room Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's additions and also success to the innovation of scientific research and also expedition are going to motivate the newest generation of travelers, the Artemis creation, as well as advantage humankind for years to come.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates accomplished substantial analytic with ground staffs, featuring the modification of the SpaceX Dragon space probe to fit an added crew member in the event of an urgent profits, as well as leveraged the crew's different skill sets and training to ensure continued secure and effective procedures for existing and also future workers.In Houston, Cassada served as a capsule communicator in NASA's Objective Management Facility and associate to the principal of the Astronaut Office for space station operations. As a scientist as well as examination pilot, Cassada likewise resulted in the progression of NASA's Commercial Staff Course and also Orion spacecraft and also exemplified the Astronaut Office in technological and functional customer reviews of medical experiments including the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually participated in a significant duty in NASA's delivery of trustworthy as well as cost-efficient human transportation to and coming from the spaceport station," said Standard Knight, supervisor of flight procedures at NASA Johnson. "By means of his devotion and also devotion to individual spaceflight exploration, Josh's job are going to remain to push our company onward on our quest back to the Moon, and also beyond. Our experts will overlook him and also are actually thrilled to see what his following experience entails.".As he transitions coming from authorities solution, Cassada is going to return to the economic sector, working with remarkably reduced illumination discovery innovations along with extensive as well as arising applications in a variety of areas, consisting of quantum networks as well as computing, remote sensing, long-range interaction, semiconductor production, and also medical image resolution." I am actually incredibly thankful for my numerous options here at NASA," Cassada pointed out, "and also especially to have actually served together with some of the most remarkable folks each on and also off our earth, accomplishing things that are actually only possible when our experts work as well as innovate with each other as a team. As humans, our team discover. And each clinical experience, whether in a laboratory on Earth or even in space, requires courage to check out and also advance culture. I am actually astonishingly lucky to have been bordered through travelers during my whole occupation so far and moving forward. An exploration may seem to be complicated, however it's a great deal much less so when you are actually equipped as well as along with the best crewmates.".Just before his collection by NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Lesson, Cassada earned his doctoral in High Energy Bit Physics coming from the College of Rochester, New York City and also was actually an USA Navy fly, teacher captain, examination fly, and teacher test aviator. Throughout his profession, Cassada has actually built up greater than 4,000 flight hrs in over 50 different airplane and has actually been actually granted a variety of military and also noncombatant awards.Cassada earned a degree coming from White Bear Pond Place High School in Minnesota in 1991 and received his bachelor's in Physics in 1995 coming from Albion College in Michigan.Learn more regarding International Space Station study as well as procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.