.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 company all over various programs, consisting of 157 times in space as well as 3 spacewalks. Cassada additionally is a retired United States Naval force captain and also marine pilot with much more than two decades of company.Cassada served as aviator of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 purpose as well as Exploration 68 flight developer aboard the International Space Station, executing myriad routine maintenance, emergency, and also upgrade tasks inside the station while additionally helping in manies practices and also modern technology demonstrations. His three spacewalks beyond the orbiting research laboratory totaled much more than 21 hrs, properly putting in a pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the place's power capacity. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, also constructed the framework for a future IROSA installation as well as entirely recovered a malfunctioning heritage sunlight range." I desire to stretch my honest appreciation to Josh for his devotion and service to human room expedition," said NASA Johnson Area Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions as well as achievements to the innovation of scientific research and also exploration will definitely encourage the next generation of travelers, the Artemis generation, as well as perk mankind for decades to come.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada and also his crewmates accomplished considerable analytical along with ground crews, including the adjustment of the SpaceX Dragon space capsule to suit an extra workers member in the unlikely event of an emergency come back, and also leveraged the staff's different capability and also training to make certain continuing safe and reliable operations for current and future teams.In Houston, Cassada acted as a capsule communicator in NASA's Purpose Command Center and also assistant to the principal of the Astronaut Office for space station procedures. As a scientist and test captain, Cassada also contributed to the progression of NASA's Industrial Staff Plan and also Orion space probe as well as stood for the Astronaut Office in technological and also working customer reviews of scientific experiments including the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Weather Atom Lab." Josh has participated in a significant part in NASA's deliverance of dependable as well as cost-effective individual transit to and also coming from the spaceport station," mentioned Norm Knight, supervisor of trip functions at NASA Johnson. "With his devotion and also devotion to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's job will remain to push us ahead on our journey back to the Moon, as well as past. Our team are going to overlook him and also are actually excited to see what his upcoming journey involves.".As he transitions from government company, Cassada is going to come back to the private sector, dealing with very reduced lighting discovery innovations with wide as well as surfacing applications in various areas, featuring quantum systems and computing, distant sensing, long-range interaction, semiconductor manufacturing, as well as clinical imaging." I am actually astonishingly thankful for my many possibilities here at NASA," Cassada mentioned, "and also particularly to have offered along with some of the most amazing folks each on and off our planet, performing things that are actually simply achievable when we function and also introduce with each other as a team. As humans, our team look into. And each clinical experience, whether in a laboratory in the world or in space, calls for tenacity to check out as well as advance community. I am actually surprisingly fortunate to have been actually neighbored by explorers during the course of my entire job up until now and also going ahead. An expedition may seem difficult, yet it is actually a whole lot much less so when you're equipped as well as along with the appropriate crewmates.".Just before his assortment by NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Course, Cassada got his doctorate in High Electricity Bit Physics coming from the University of Rochester, New York and was an U.S. Navy pilot, teacher fly, exam captain, as well as teacher test pilot. Throughout his job, Cassada has accumulated greater than 4,000 flight hrs in over fifty different aircraft as well as has actually been actually granted numerous army and also noncombatant honors.Cassada graduated coming from White Bear Lake Area High School in Minnesota in 1991 and also acquired his bachelor's in Natural science in 1995 from Albion University in Michigan.Find out more about International Space Station research and also functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.