.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 company throughout several programs, featuring 157 days precede and 3 spacewalks. Cassada also is actually a retired United States Navy captain and also marine pilot along with greater than 20 years of company.Cassada served as pilot of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 purpose and also Trip 68 tour designer aboard the International Spaceport station, performing myriad upkeep, emergency, and also upgrade tasks inside the station while also adding to dozens practices and technology demonstrations. His 3 spacewalks outside of the orbiting research laboratory amounted to more than 21 hours, efficiently installing a set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to enhance the place's electric ability. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, additionally set up the framework for a potential IROSA installation and completely brought back a malfunctioning legacy photovoltaic collection." I intend to expand my honest thankfulness to Josh for his dedication as well as service to human area expedition," said NASA Johnson Area Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments and success to the improvement of scientific research and also exploration are going to motivate the future generation of travelers, the Artemis production, and benefit humankind for years to come.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates accomplished significant analytical with ground staffs, consisting of the modification of the SpaceX Monster space capsule to accommodate an additional staff participant in the unlikely event of an unexpected emergency come back, and also leveraged the crew's different capability and training to guarantee continuous risk-free and effective functions for existing as well as potential staffs.In Houston, Cassada worked as a pill communicator in NASA's Objective Management Facility as well as assistant to the main of the Rocketeer Workplace for space station procedures. As a physicist and also exam aviator, Cassada also resulted in the development of NASA's Commercial Team Plan and also Orion spacecraft and worked with the Astronaut Office in technical and also working customer reviews of medical experiments including the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and also Cold Atom Laboratory." Josh has played a substantial role in NASA's deliverance of dependable and also affordable individual transport to and from the space station," said Rule Knight, supervisor of tour procedures at NASA Johnson. "By means of his devotion and devotion to individual spaceflight expedition, Josh's job will certainly remain to push our team ahead on our adventure back to the Moon, as well as beyond. Our team are going to overlook him and are thrilled to see what his next quest involves.".As he transitions from federal government solution, Cassada will return to the economic sector, working on incredibly low lighting detection technologies with vast as well as emerging requests in numerous locations, featuring quantum networks and also computer, remote control picking up, long-range communication, semiconductor production, and clinical imaging." I am surprisingly thankful for my lots of chances here at NASA," Cassada pointed out, "and also especially to have served alongside a few of one of the most outstanding folks both on and also off our world, completing traits that are just feasible when our company function and also innovate together as a crew. As people, our experts discover. And each scientific adventure, whether in a lab on Earth or in space, demands guts to explore and also advance community. I am surprisingly blessed to have actually been actually surrounded through travelers throughout my whole entire job until now and moving forward. A trip may appear intimidating, yet it's a lot much less so when you're ready as well as with the correct crewmates.".Before his option by NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Lesson, Cassada got his doctorate in High Electricity Particle Physics from the University of Rochester, The Big Apple as well as was actually an U.S. Navy fly, coach fly, test fly, as well as teacher exam captain. Throughout his career, Cassada has actually built up more than 4,000 tour hrs in over fifty different aircraft as well as has been rewarded various military as well as noncombatant honors.Cassada got a degree from White Bear Lake Location Senior High School in Minnesota in 1991 as well as received his undergraduate's in Physics in 1995 coming from Albion University in Michigan.Discover more regarding International Space Station study as well as procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.