.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 organization around multiple plans, including 157 times precede and also 3 spacewalks. Cassada likewise is a retired USA Navy leader and also marine flyer with much more than twenty years of company.Cassada acted as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 goal and also Trip 68 tour engineer aboard the International Space Station, carrying out myriad routine maintenance, backup, as well as upgrade tasks inside the terminal while likewise helping in dozens practices and modern technology demonstrations. His 3 spacewalks away from the orbiting laboratory totted more than 21 hours, efficiently mounting a pair of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to enhance the station's electric capability. Cassada, together with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, additionally assembled the framework for a future IROSA installation and also totally recovered a malfunctioning legacy photovoltaic assortment." I want to expand my honest Thanksgiving to Josh for his dedication as well as service to individual room expedition," claimed NASA Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's additions and accomplishments to the advancement of scientific research and also exploration are going to influence the future generation of explorers, the Artemis production, and perk mankind for many years to find.".Throughout Exploration 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates completed comprehensive analytical with ground staffs, consisting of the alteration of the SpaceX Dragon space capsule to fit an added crew participant in the unlikely event of an urgent return, and leveraged the workers's various capability as well as training to make certain continued secure as well as helpful operations for existing and also future teams.In Houston, Cassada worked as a capsule communicator in NASA's Mission Management Center as well as associate to the principal of the Rocketeer Office for space station operations. As a physicist and examination fly, Cassada additionally brought about the advancement of NASA's Office Crew Course and also Orion space capsule and also embodied the Astronaut Workplace in technological and working evaluations of medical experiments like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and also Cold Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually participated in a notable function in NASA's saving of trusted as well as economical individual transportation to and also coming from the spaceport station," said Norm Knight, director of tour functions at NASA Johnson. "With his dedication as well as devotion to individual spaceflight expedition, Josh's job will certainly continue to drive us ahead on our quest back to the Moon, and past. We will definitely skip him as well as are actually thrilled to observe what his following journey includes.".As he transitions coming from authorities service, Cassada will go back to the economic sector, working on extremely low light diagnosis modern technologies with extensive and emerging applications in numerous locations, including quantum networks as well as computing, remote noticing, long-range communication, semiconductor production, as well as medical imaging." I am unbelievably grateful for my a lot of chances right here at NASA," Cassada stated, "and also particularly to have actually provided alongside some of the absolute most remarkable people each on as well as off our planet, accomplishing things that are actually merely feasible when our team function and introduce with each other as a crew. As human beings, our team discover. As well as each clinical adventure, whether in a lab on Earth or even precede, calls for tenacity to discover and advance community. I am actually unbelievably lucky to have been actually neighbored through travelers during the course of my entire profession up until now and going ahead. A trip may seem challenging, yet it's a lot less therefore when you're equipped as well as with the ideal crewmates.".Before his selection through NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Class, Cassada made his doctorate in High Power Bit Physics coming from the Educational Institution of Rochester, New York and also was an U.S. Naval force fly, coach aviator, examination fly, and instructor test captain. Throughout his profession, Cassada has collected much more than 4,000 flight hours in over fifty different aircraft as well as has actually been actually awarded several armed forces and also private honors.Cassada finished coming from White Bear Pond Area Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 and received his bachelor's in Physics in 1995 coming from Albion University in Michigan.Discover more regarding International Space Station investigation and procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.