.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada resigned Oct. 1, after 11 years of solution to the firm throughout a number of systems, featuring 157 times in space and also three spacewalks. Cassada also is actually a retired USA Navy leader and marine pilot along with more than twenty years of service.Cassada acted as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 objective and Trip 68 air travel designer aboard the International Spaceport station, carrying out myriad maintenance, contingency, and also upgrade tasks inside the terminal while likewise resulting in numerous practices as well as modern technology manifestations. His three spacewalks beyond the orbiting lab amounted to greater than 21 hrs, successfully putting in a set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the station's electrical capability. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, also set up the structure for a future IROSA installment as well as totally restored a malfunctioning tradition solar energy array." I wish to extend my sincere gratefulness to Josh for his commitment as well as company to individual space expedition," claimed NASA Johnson Space Facility Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's additions as well as accomplishments to the improvement of science as well as expedition will inspire the newest generation of travelers, the Artemis production, and perk humankind for years to come.".Throughout Exploration 68, Cassada and also his crewmates finished substantial problem-solving along with ground teams, consisting of the adjustment of the SpaceX Monster space probe to suit an additional team member in the unlikely event of an urgent come back, as well as leveraged the workers's different capability as well as training to make certain continuous secure and also reliable operations for existing and also future teams.In Houston, Cassada worked as a pill communicator in NASA's Purpose Control Center and also assistant to the main of the Rocketeer Office for spaceport station operations. As a scientist and test aviator, Cassada additionally added to the growth of NASA's Industrial Team Course and Orion spacecraft as well as stood for the Astronaut Office in specialized and also working assessments of scientific experiments like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Weather Atom Lab." Josh has actually participated in a considerable function in NASA's saving of trustworthy and also affordable human transportation to as well as coming from the space station," said Rule Knight, supervisor of air travel functions at NASA Johnson. "With his commitment as well as devotion to human spaceflight expedition, Josh's job will definitely continue to drive our team ahead on our adventure back to the Moon, as well as past. We will overlook him and also are actually excited to view what his next adventure includes.".As he transitions coming from federal government service, Cassada will certainly go back to the economic sector, servicing incredibly low lighting detection innovations along with wide as well as arising treatments in various places, featuring quantum systems as well as computer, distant picking up, long-range interaction, semiconductor production, as well as clinical imaging." I am actually incredibly thankful for my a lot of options listed below at NASA," Cassada stated, "and also particularly to have actually provided along with some of the absolute most remarkable people both on and off our planet, achieving things that are actually only achievable when our experts work and also innovate with each other as a staff. As human beings, our experts discover. As well as each medical journey, whether in a laboratory on Earth or in space, demands tenacity to check out as well as develop community. I am actually surprisingly fortunate to have been surrounded by travelers during my whole occupation thus far and also moving forward. A trip might seem overwhelming, yet it is actually a whole lot much less therefore when you're prepared as well as along with the appropriate crewmates.".Before his assortment by NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Lesson, Cassada gained his doctoral in High Electricity Fragment Natural Science from the College of Rochester, New York as well as was an U.S. Naval force captain, trainer pilot, exam aviator, as well as trainer examination aviator. Throughout his occupation, Cassada has gathered greater than 4,000 flight hours in over fifty different airplane and also has actually been granted various military and also noncombatant awards.Cassada finished from White Bear Lake Area High School in Minnesota in 1991 and got his undergraduate's in Physics in 1995 from Albion University in Michigan.Learn more about International Spaceport station study and also procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.