.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 agency throughout several courses, consisting of 157 times in space as well as 3 spacewalks. Cassada likewise is actually a retired United States Navy captain and also naval aviator with greater than two decades of service.Cassada served as aviator of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 purpose and also Exploration 68 trip designer aboard the International Spaceport station, carrying out myriad routine maintenance, emergency, and also upgrade tasks inside the terminal while additionally adding to hundreds of practices and modern technology manifestations. His three spacewalks away from the orbiting research laboratory totaled more than 21 hours, effectively setting up a set of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to boost the place's electric ability. Cassada, together with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, also constructed the commercial infrastructure for a future IROSA installation and also completely rejuvenated a malfunctioning legacy photo voltaic collection." I desire to expand my truthful gratitude to Josh for his devotion and service to individual area expedition," mentioned NASA Johnson Space Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions and also success to the advancement of scientific research and also expedition are going to encourage the newest generation of travelers, the Artemis generation, and benefit humanity for decades to follow.".Throughout Exploration 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates accomplished extensive analytical with ground teams, including the adjustment of the SpaceX Dragon space probe to fit an additional crew member in case of an emergency profits, and also leveraged the team's different skill sets as well as instruction to make sure continuous secure and reliable functions for existing and future staffs.In Houston, Cassada acted as a capsule communicator in NASA's Mission Command Center and assistant to the main of the Astronaut Office for spaceport station operations. As a physicist and exam fly, Cassada likewise supported the development of NASA's Industrial Team Plan and also Orion space capsule and exemplified the Astronaut Workplace in technological and operational evaluations of scientific experiments such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and also Cold Atom Laboratory." Josh has played a notable function in NASA's saving of trusted and also affordable individual transport to and also coming from the spaceport station," claimed Norm Knight, supervisor of flight procedures at NASA Johnson. "With his dedication and also dedication to individual spaceflight exploration, Josh's job will definitely remain to push our company onward on our experience back to the Moon, and also past. Our company will definitely skip him and are actually delighted to observe what his following quest requires.".As he transitions from federal government solution, Cassada will return to the economic sector, working on remarkably low light diagnosis innovations with wide and developing applications in several locations, consisting of quantum systems as well as processing, distant picking up, long-range interaction, semiconductor manufacturing, and health care image resolution." I am exceptionally grateful for my a lot of options below at NASA," Cassada stated, "and particularly to have actually served together with a few of one of the most amazing people both on as well as off our world, completing points that are actually merely achievable when we operate as well as introduce all together as a group. As humans, our experts look into. And each clinical adventure, whether in a lab on Earth or precede, needs nerve to look into and develop society. I am actually extremely fortunate to have been neighbored by explorers during the course of my whole profession until now as well as going ahead. A trip may seem to be overwhelming, however it's a great deal much less therefore when you are actually well prepared and also with the appropriate crewmates.".Just before his option by NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Training class, Cassada got his doctoral in High Electricity Particle Physics coming from the College of Rochester, New York as well as was an USA Navy captain, trainer pilot, examination captain, as well as instructor examination pilot. Throughout his profession, Cassada has actually collected more than 4,000 flight hours in over 50 different plane and has actually been actually granted different army as well as noncombatant awards.Cassada finished coming from White Bear Lake Place Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 as well as received his undergraduate's in Physics in 1995 coming from Albion University in Michigan.Discover more concerning International Space Station research study as well as operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.