.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada resigned Oct. 1, after 11 years of company to the organization around a number of programs, featuring 157 days in space as well as 3 spacewalks. Cassada also is a retired United States Naval force leader and marine aviator with much more than 20 years of service.Cassada acted as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 objective and also Exploration 68 air travel developer aboard the International Spaceport station, executing myriad upkeep, contingency, as well as upgrade activities inside the terminal while likewise resulting in dozens experiments as well as modern technology demonstrations. His three spacewalks away from the orbiting lab completed more than 21 hrs, successfully setting up a set of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the station's power capability. Cassada, together with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, additionally assembled the facilities for a potential IROSA setup as well as completely repaired a malfunctioning tradition sun collection." I intend to extend my sincere gratefulness to Josh for his dedication and also solution to individual room expedition," said NASA Johnson Room Center Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions and also achievements to the development of scientific research as well as exploration will definitely encourage the newest generation of travelers, the Artemis creation, as well as advantage humankind for decades to find.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada and his crewmates accomplished comprehensive problem-solving along with ground crews, including the adjustment of the SpaceX Monster space probe to fit an additional staff participant in case of an emergency situation return, as well as leveraged the workers's different ability and instruction to guarantee continuing secure as well as successful functions for existing and also future workers.In Houston, Cassada acted as a pill communicator in NASA's Objective Management Facility and also assistant to the main of the Astronaut Office for space station operations. As a physicist and also exam pilot, Cassada also contributed to the progression of NASA's Commercial Staff Program as well as Orion spacecraft as well as embodied the Astronaut Office in technical and working assessments of medical experiments like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Weather Atom Lab." Josh has played a substantial role in NASA's deliverance of trustworthy and cost-effective human transit to and from the spaceport station," stated Rule Knight, director of flight procedures at NASA Johnson. "Via his dedication and also dedication to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's job will definitely continue to push our company forward on our trip back to the Moon, as well as past. Our experts will definitely miss him and are delighted to observe what his following trip requires.".As he transitions from authorities solution, Cassada will go back to the economic sector, servicing exceptionally reduced light discovery technologies with vast and also emerging applications in different regions, featuring quantum systems and computer, remote picking up, long-range communication, semiconductor manufacturing, as well as clinical imaging." I am actually exceptionally thankful for my a lot of chances right here at NASA," Cassada said, "and particularly to have served alongside some of the most amazing people both on and also off our planet, performing points that are just possible when our team operate and also introduce together as a crew. As humans, our experts look into. And each scientific adventure, whether in a lab on Earth or in space, demands nerve to discover as well as advance culture. I am actually extremely blessed to have been actually surrounded by explorers in the course of my whole job until now and going forward. An expedition might seem to be challenging, yet it's a whole lot much less thus when you are actually ready as well as with the appropriate crewmates.".Just before his variety by NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Course, Cassada gained his doctoral in High Power Fragment Natural Science coming from the Educational Institution of Rochester, New York and was a united state Navy pilot, coach aviator, exam aviator, as well as instructor examination aviator. Throughout his career, Cassada has accumulated much more than 4,000 air travel hours in over 50 different airplane and also has been actually awarded various military as well as noncombatant awards.Cassada finished coming from White Bear Lake Location Senior High School in Minnesota in 1991 and got his undergraduate's in Physics in 1995 from Albion University in Michigan.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station analysis as well as operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.