.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA astronaut Josh Cassada resigned Oct. 1, after 11 years of company to the firm throughout various courses, including 157 days in space and 3 spacewalks. Cassada additionally is actually a retired USA Navy leader and also marine aviator along with much more than twenty years of solution.Cassada acted as fly of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 objective and also Expedition 68 tour designer aboard the International Space Station, performing myriad routine maintenance, emergency, as well as upgrade tasks inside the terminal while additionally helping in dozens practices as well as technology demonstrations. His 3 spacewalks outside of the orbiting laboratory completed more than 21 hrs, efficiently mounting a pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the station's electrical capability. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, also set up the infrastructure for a potential IROSA setup and entirely repaired a malfunctioning heritage photovoltaic collection." I want to stretch my genuine gratefulness to Josh for his dedication and company to individual space expedition," stated NASA Johnson Room Facility Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments and also success to the advancement of science and exploration will definitely inspire the next generation of travelers, the Artemis generation, and advantage humanity for many years to come.".Throughout Exploration 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates accomplished comprehensive analytical along with ground groups, featuring the alteration of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to accommodate an additional workers member in the event of an emergency profits, and leveraged the staff's numerous skill sets and also instruction to ensure ongoing risk-free as well as successful functions for existing and future teams.In Houston, Cassada functioned as a capsule communicator in NASA's Objective Management Facility and assistant to the chief of the Astronaut Workplace for space station operations. As a scientist and examination aviator, Cassada additionally resulted in the development of NASA's Office Team Plan and Orion spacecraft and exemplified the Rocketeer Workplace in technological and also operational assessments of scientific practices such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and also Cold Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually participated in a significant role in NASA's delivery of reliable and also economical individual transportation to and also from the spaceport station," said Rule Knight, supervisor of air travel operations at NASA Johnson. "Via his dedication as well as devotion to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's work will certainly continue to press our company ahead on our experience back to the Moon, and past. Our experts will certainly miss him as well as are actually excited to find what his upcoming experience necessitates.".As he transitions from federal government service, Cassada is going to come back to the economic sector, focusing on exceptionally reduced lighting detection modern technologies along with wide as well as surfacing applications in numerous areas, featuring quantum systems and also computer, remote control noticing, long-range interaction, semiconductor production, and also clinical image resolution." I am actually very thankful for my several chances below at NASA," Cassada mentioned, "and especially to have actually offered along with some of the best fantastic individuals both on as well as off our earth, accomplishing factors that are simply possible when we work and also innovate together as a crew. As people, our experts look into. And each scientific journey, whether in a lab in the world or even precede, calls for nerve to look into and develop culture. I am extremely fortunate to have actually been surrounded through explorers during the course of my whole career so far as well as going ahead. An exploration may seem to be challenging, yet it is actually a great deal much less thus when you're well prepared and with the correct crewmates.".Before his collection through NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Training class, Cassada earned his doctorate in High Power Bit Natural Science from the University of Rochester, Nyc as well as was a united state Navy captain, instructor fly, exam captain, and also trainer test captain. Throughout his occupation, Cassada has actually accumulated greater than 4,000 air travel hrs in over 50 various airplane and also has been actually rewarded a variety of military and also private honors.Cassada finished from White Bear Pond Region High School in Minnesota in 1991 and acquired his undergraduate's in Natural science in 1995 coming from Albion University in Michigan.Learn more concerning International Spaceport station study and also operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.