.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA astronaut Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of service to the organization around a number of courses, consisting of 157 days in space as well as three spacewalks. Cassada additionally is actually a retired United States Naval force leader as well as naval pilot along with more than twenty years of company.Cassada functioned as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 goal and Trip 68 air travel engineer aboard the International Space Station, performing myriad routine maintenance, contingency, and also upgrade activities inside the terminal while additionally resulting in dozens experiments and innovation demonstrations. His 3 spacewalks away from the orbiting laboratory totted greater than 21 hrs, efficiently putting up a pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to boost the station's electric capacity. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, additionally put together the facilities for a potential IROSA installment as well as entirely recovered a malfunctioning legacy photovoltaic variety." I intend to expand my honest Thanksgiving to Josh for his commitment and service to individual room exploration," said NASA Johnson Space Facility Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions and also achievements to the innovation of science as well as exploration will influence the future generation of travelers, the Artemis production, and benefit humankind for years ahead.".Throughout Exploration 68, Cassada and also his crewmates completed significant problem-solving along with ground teams, including the customization of the SpaceX Monster space capsule to accommodate an additional staff member in case of an emergency situation return, as well as leveraged the staff's different ability as well as instruction to ensure continuing risk-free and helpful procedures for existing as well as future teams.In Houston, Cassada functioned as a capsule communicator in NASA's Mission Management Facility and also associate to the chief of the Astronaut Office for spaceport station procedures. As a scientist and also test aviator, Cassada likewise helped in the progression of NASA's Business Workers System and also Orion spacecraft as well as represented the Rocketeer Workplace in technical and working testimonials of medical practices including the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and also Cold Atom Lab." Josh has played a substantial job in NASA's deliverance of trusted as well as affordable individual transport to and also coming from the spaceport station," mentioned Standard Knight, director of trip functions at NASA Johnson. "By means of his devotion and dedication to individual spaceflight expedition, Josh's job are going to continue to push our team forward on our adventure back to the Moon, and beyond. We will certainly miss him and also are actually excited to find what his next experience involves.".As he transitions coming from federal government service, Cassada will certainly come back to the economic sector, servicing remarkably reduced lighting detection modern technologies along with broad as well as surfacing applications in various areas, consisting of quantum networks as well as computer, remote sensing, long-range communication, semiconductor manufacturing, and also medical imaging." I am actually extremely grateful for my a lot of possibilities listed below at NASA," Cassada stated, "and particularly to have offered along with several of the best impressive folks both on and also off our planet, performing factors that are merely possible when our company work and also introduce all together as a group. As people, our team discover. And each medical journey, whether in a lab on Earth or in space, requires nerve to discover and also develop community. I am actually extremely blessed to have been encompassed by explorers throughout my entire career thus far and also going forward. A trip may seem overwhelming, however it is actually a lot less thus when you're prepared and also with the correct crewmates.".Prior to his assortment by NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Course, Cassada got his doctorate in High Power Bit Physics from the University of Rochester, Nyc and was actually a united state Navy fly, trainer captain, exam aviator, and teacher exam fly. Throughout his profession, Cassada has accumulated greater than 4,000 air travel hours in over 50 different aircraft and has been awarded several armed forces and civilian honors.Cassada graduated from White Bear Pond Place High School in Minnesota in 1991 and got his bachelor's in Physics in 1995 from Albion University in Michigan.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station study and also functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.