.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 across several programs, featuring 157 times in space and also three spacewalks. Cassada additionally is actually a retired USA Naval force leader and marine pilot along with much more than two decades of service.Cassada served as fly of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 purpose as well as Trip 68 tour developer aboard the International Spaceport station, carrying out myriad routine maintenance, contingency, as well as upgrade tasks inside the terminal while also adding to thousands of experiments and also modern technology manifestations. His three spacewalks outside of the orbiting lab completed much more than 21 hrs, efficiently putting up a set of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to enhance the station's electric capability. Cassada, together with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, likewise set up the structure for a potential IROSA installment as well as entirely restored a malfunctioning legacy sun assortment." I would like to prolong my truthful thankfulness to Josh for his commitment and service to individual room exploration," claimed NASA Johnson Room Facility Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments and also accomplishments to the advancement of science and expedition will certainly encourage the future generation of explorers, the Artemis creation, as well as perk humankind for many years to follow.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates accomplished substantial problem-solving along with ground teams, including the customization of the SpaceX Monster space capsule to fit an extra staff member in case of an emergency situation profits, as well as leveraged the team's a variety of ability as well as instruction to ensure continued secure and efficient operations for current and also potential workers.In Houston, Cassada served as a capsule communicator in NASA's Goal Control Center and also assistant to the principal of the Astronaut Workplace for spaceport station functions. As a physicist as well as examination pilot, Cassada additionally resulted in the progression of NASA's Industrial Workers Course and also Orion space probe and embodied the Astronaut Workplace in technological as well as functional testimonials of clinical experiments like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually played a significant role in NASA's delivery of reputable as well as cost-effective individual transportation to as well as from the spaceport station," claimed Standard Knight, supervisor of tour procedures at NASA Johnson. "Through his commitment and also devotion to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's job will certainly continue to push our company ahead on our journey back to the Moon, and beyond. Our company will definitely skip him and are delighted to find what his next adventure entails.".As he transitions from authorities service, Cassada will come back to the economic sector, servicing extremely reduced illumination diagnosis innovations along with extensive as well as developing uses in various regions, including quantum systems and also computing, remote control picking up, long-range interaction, semiconductor production, as well as medical imaging." I am actually incredibly happy for my lots of opportunities here at NASA," Cassada claimed, "and also especially to have served alongside some of the most impressive people each on as well as off our planet, achieving factors that are actually merely feasible when our company work as well as innovate together as a crew. As people, our experts discover. And also each clinical experience, whether in a lab in the world or in space, requires nerve to discover and develop culture. I am surprisingly privileged to have been actually surrounded by travelers throughout my whole entire job up until now and going ahead. An expedition may appear intimidating, yet it's a lot much less therefore when you're ready as well as with the appropriate crewmates.".Just before his assortment through NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Course, Cassada made his doctorate in High Power Particle Natural Science coming from the University of Rochester, New York City and also was an U.S. Naval force aviator, trainer fly, examination captain, and also trainer test fly. Throughout his job, Cassada has gathered more than 4,000 air travel hrs in over fifty different airplane and has actually been rewarded several military as well as private honors.Cassada earned a degree from White Bear Pond Area Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 and also received his bachelor's in Physics in 1995 from Albion University in Michigan.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station investigation and also operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.