.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Relinquish NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of service to the organization throughout multiple courses, including 157 times precede and three spacewalks. Cassada also is actually a retired USA Navy captain and naval aviator along with much more than two decades of solution.Cassada served as pilot of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 purpose and also Trip 68 flight developer aboard the International Spaceport station, implementing myriad upkeep, contingency, as well as upgrade tasks inside the station while additionally bring about hundreds of practices and modern technology demonstrations. His 3 spacewalks outside of the orbiting research laboratory totaled much more than 21 hrs, efficiently setting up a set of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to enhance the place's electric capability. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, also constructed the framework for a potential IROSA installation and entirely brought back a malfunctioning legacy sun array." I desire to extend my truthful thankfulness to Josh for his dedication and service to human area expedition," claimed NASA Johnson Room Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions and also accomplishments to the advancement of science and exploration will definitely influence the newest generation of travelers, the Artemis production, and also advantage humanity for decades to find.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada and also his crewmates completed considerable analytic along with ground crews, including the adjustment of the SpaceX Monster spacecraft to accommodate an added team participant in the unlikely event of an unexpected emergency return, and leveraged the crew's several capability and training to make certain ongoing secure as well as reliable operations for present and also future crews.In Houston, Cassada worked as a pill communicator in NASA's Purpose Management Facility and also assistant to the principal of the Astronaut Office for spaceport station procedures. As a physicist and examination fly, Cassada additionally added to the growth of NASA's Office Team Plan and Orion space capsule as well as represented the Rocketeer Workplace in technological and also operational reviews of medical practices like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually played a considerable task in NASA's saving of trusted and cost-effective individual transport to and also from the space station," pointed out Rule Knight, supervisor of trip procedures at NASA Johnson. "Through his devotion and also dedication to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's job will remain to press us ahead on our quest back to the Moon, and beyond. Our experts will miss him and are thrilled to see what his next journey includes.".As he transitions coming from authorities service, Cassada will certainly return to the private sector, servicing remarkably reduced lighting discovery innovations along with vast and surfacing requests in various locations, consisting of quantum networks as well as computer, distant sensing, long-range communication, semiconductor manufacturing, as well as health care image resolution." I am actually surprisingly thankful for my lots of options right here at NASA," Cassada claimed, "as well as especially to have offered alongside a few of the most incredible folks each on and off our earth, achieving traits that are actually just possible when we work and also innovate all together as a group. As people, our company discover. And also each medical journey, whether in a laboratory on Earth or even precede, demands nerve to look into and develop community. I am actually extremely fortunate to have been encompassed by explorers in the course of my whole entire career up until now and moving forward. An expedition may seem challenging, but it's a lot less thus when you're prepared as well as with the correct crewmates.".Before his collection through NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Training class, Cassada earned his doctoral in High Power Fragment Natural Science coming from the College of Rochester, New York and was actually an USA Navy pilot, teacher captain, test fly, and instructor examination pilot. Throughout his profession, Cassada has gathered greater than 4,000 air travel hrs in over 50 different plane as well as has actually been awarded a variety of armed forces as well as civilian awards.Cassada graduated from White Bear Pond Region High School in Minnesota in 1991 and also acquired his undergraduate's in Natural science in 1995 coming from Albion University in Michigan.Find out more regarding International Space Station research as well as procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.