.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of service to the firm around several systems, consisting of 157 times in space and also three spacewalks. Cassada additionally is a retired USA Navy captain and marine aviator along with more than two decades of service.Cassada worked as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission and Expedition 68 air travel engineer aboard the International Spaceport station, executing myriad routine maintenance, emergency, and also upgrade tasks inside the station while also helping in dozens practices as well as technology demonstrations. His 3 spacewalks away from the orbiting research laboratory amounted to greater than 21 hrs, effectively putting up a set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to improve the place's power ability. Cassada, together with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, also assembled the structure for a potential IROSA installment and entirely restored a malfunctioning tradition solar array." I would like to stretch my truthful Thanksgiving to Josh for his dedication and also company to human room expedition," claimed NASA Johnson Space Facility Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments and also accomplishments to the innovation of scientific research and also expedition will certainly motivate the future generation of explorers, the Artemis production, and also perk humankind for many years ahead.".Throughout Exploration 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates completed substantial analytic along with ground crews, featuring the alteration of the SpaceX Monster spacecraft to fit an added team member in case of an emergency return, and also leveraged the crew's several ability and also instruction to ensure continued safe and reliable procedures for present as well as potential crews.In Houston, Cassada worked as a pill communicator in NASA's Mission Management Facility and also assistant to the main of the Rocketeer Workplace for space station procedures. As a physicist as well as examination aviator, Cassada likewise brought about the advancement of NASA's Commercial Staff Plan and Orion spacecraft and stood for the Astronaut Office in technical and working evaluations of clinical practices like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Atom Lab." Josh has participated in a substantial job in NASA's deliverance of trustworthy as well as cost-effective human transport to as well as from the spaceport station," pointed out Rule Knight, director of flight procedures at NASA Johnson. "With his devotion and devotion to human spaceflight expedition, Josh's work will definitely remain to drive our company ahead on our adventure back to the Moon, and also beyond. We will skip him and are actually excited to see what his following adventure includes.".As he transitions coming from federal government solution, Cassada will go back to the private sector, focusing on extremely reduced light detection innovations along with vast and also emerging requests in numerous locations, including quantum systems and computing, remote noticing, long-range communication, semiconductor manufacturing, and also clinical image resolution." I am actually incredibly thankful for my many possibilities listed below at NASA," Cassada claimed, "and specifically to have provided alongside a number of the absolute most outstanding people each on and off our planet, accomplishing factors that are merely possible when our company operate and also innovate with each other as a crew. As people, our experts check out. As well as each medical journey, whether in a laboratory in the world or precede, needs tenacity to check out and also advance community. I am unbelievably fortunate to have actually been encompassed by explorers during my entire job until now and also moving forward. An exploration may appear overwhelming, yet it is actually a whole lot less therefore when you're well prepared and along with the best crewmates.".Prior to his variety through NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Lesson, Cassada gained his doctorate in High Energy Fragment Physics coming from the University of Rochester, The Big Apple and was an U.S. Naval force aviator, trainer fly, examination pilot, and trainer exam pilot. Throughout his job, Cassada has actually gathered more than 4,000 air travel hrs in over fifty various aircraft and has been actually rewarded a variety of army and noncombatant awards.Cassada earned a degree from White Bear Pond Location Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 and also obtained his bachelor's in Physics in 1995 from Albion College in Michigan.Learn more about International Space Station analysis and procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.