.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Relinquish NASA.NASA astronaut Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of service to the organization throughout several systems, including 157 times precede and also 3 spacewalks. Cassada also is a retired USA Naval force captain and naval pilot with more than two decades of service.Cassada functioned as fly of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 objective and also Expedition 68 air travel developer aboard the International Spaceport station, executing myriad maintenance, emergency, and upgrade tasks inside the terminal while additionally adding to thousands of practices and also modern technology demonstrations. His three spacewalks outside of the orbiting research laboratory totted much more than 21 hrs, effectively putting up a set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to improve the station's electric capacity. Cassada, together with crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, likewise constructed the framework for a potential IROSA setup as well as entirely brought back a malfunctioning tradition sunlight array." I want to expand my earnest gratitude to Josh for his dedication and company to individual space exploration," claimed NASA Johnson Room Facility Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's additions and also achievements to the innovation of scientific research and also exploration are going to influence the newest generation of travelers, the Artemis creation, and also benefit mankind for many years to come.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada and also his crewmates finished extensive analytic along with ground teams, including the modification of the SpaceX Dragon space capsule to accommodate an additional workers participant in case of an unexpected emergency come back, and leveraged the team's different ability and also training to make certain continuing secure and successful operations for current as well as potential workers.In Houston, Cassada acted as a pill communicator in NASA's Purpose Command Center and also associate to the chief of the Astronaut Office for spaceport station procedures. As a physicist and also exam captain, Cassada additionally resulted in the advancement of NASA's Commercial Staff Course and also Orion space probe and also exemplified the Rocketeer Workplace in technical and also working testimonials of scientific practices like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually played a considerable job in NASA's deliverance of dependable as well as cost-effective individual transit to and coming from the spaceport station," claimed Rule Knight, supervisor of tour operations at NASA Johnson. "Via his devotion as well as dedication to individual spaceflight expedition, Josh's job will remain to drive us onward on our experience back to the Moon, and beyond. Our experts will certainly miss him as well as are actually delighted to see what his next quest necessitates.".As he transitions coming from federal government service, Cassada will definitely return to the private sector, dealing with remarkably low illumination detection technologies with wide and also surfacing treatments in different areas, featuring quantum networks as well as computer, remote sensing, long-range interaction, semiconductor production, as well as medical imaging." I am unbelievably thankful for my numerous chances right here at NASA," Cassada mentioned, "and particularly to have offered along with several of one of the most outstanding people both on as well as off our world, performing traits that are actually simply feasible when our team work as well as introduce together as a crew. As people, our team discover. And also each scientific experience, whether in a lab in the world or even in space, calls for guts to check out as well as develop society. I am actually incredibly fortunate to have been actually encompassed through travelers during the course of my entire occupation until now and also going ahead. A trip might seem to be difficult, however it is actually a whole lot much less thus when you're well prepared and with the appropriate crewmates.".Just before his choice by NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Class, Cassada got his doctorate in High Energy Particle Natural Science from the University of Rochester, New York and was an USA Naval force pilot, teacher aviator, examination aviator, as well as teacher examination captain. Throughout his job, Cassada has actually gathered much more than 4,000 trip hours in over 50 various plane as well as has actually been granted several military and civilian honors.Cassada graduated from White Bear Lake Location Senior High School in Minnesota in 1991 and also received his bachelor's in Physics in 1995 coming from Albion College in Michigan.Discover more regarding International Space Station research and procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.