.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 across various systems, including 157 days precede and also three spacewalks. Cassada additionally is actually a retired United States Navy leader and also naval aviator along with greater than 20 years of solution.Cassada acted as aviator of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 purpose and Trip 68 flight designer aboard the International Spaceport station, carrying out myriad upkeep, emergency, and also upgrade activities inside the station while additionally resulting in manies practices and modern technology demonstrations. His three spacewalks away from the orbiting lab totted greater than 21 hrs, properly putting up a set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to boost the place's electrical ability. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, also assembled the commercial infrastructure for a future IROSA installment as well as completely repaired a malfunctioning legacy photo voltaic array." I intend to expand my genuine gratefulness to Josh for his devotion as well as company to human area expedition," said NASA Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments as well as accomplishments to the development of science as well as exploration will certainly influence the future generation of explorers, the Artemis generation, as well as benefit humankind for decades to find.".Throughout Exploration 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates finished extensive problem-solving with ground groups, featuring the customization of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to fit an extra workers participant in case of an emergency situation profits, and also leveraged the team's different capability and also instruction to make sure continuing secure and reliable functions for current as well as future teams.In Houston, Cassada functioned as a capsule communicator in NASA's Goal Control Center and also assistant to the chief of the Astronaut Office for spaceport station functions. As a scientist and examination fly, Cassada additionally supported the growth of NASA's Business Workers Course as well as Orion space capsule and embodied the Astronaut Workplace in technical as well as working testimonials of scientific experiments such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Weather Atom Lab." Josh has participated in a significant part in NASA's delivery of reputable and also economical human transportation to as well as coming from the spaceport station," pointed out Rule Knight, director of flight procedures at NASA Johnson. "Via his devotion and also commitment to human spaceflight expedition, Josh's job will remain to drive our team forward on our adventure back to the Moon, and also past. Our team will certainly skip him and are actually thrilled to observe what his next trip requires.".As he transitions from government company, Cassada will definitely go back to the private sector, servicing very low illumination detection modern technologies along with wide and arising applications in different places, featuring quantum systems and computer, remote sensing, long-range communication, semiconductor production, and also medical image resolution." I am actually unbelievably grateful for my lots of options right here at NASA," Cassada mentioned, "and especially to have provided together with some of the most impressive people both on and off our earth, accomplishing things that are actually just possible when our experts function as well as introduce together as a crew. As humans, our team explore. And each clinical experience, whether in a lab in the world or in space, needs nerve to look into and develop community. I am actually incredibly blessed to have actually been actually neighbored through travelers in the course of my whole job until now and also going ahead. An exploration might seem to be intimidating, yet it's a whole lot much less so when you're ready and with the right crewmates.".Prior to his selection through NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Class, Cassada gained his doctoral in High Energy Bit Physics coming from the College of Rochester, New York City as well as was an USA Navy fly, coach pilot, exam fly, as well as teacher test aviator. Throughout his occupation, Cassada has actually collected greater than 4,000 tour hours in over fifty different plane and has been actually granted a variety of army and also civilian awards.Cassada earned a degree coming from White Bear Lake Area High School in Minnesota in 1991 and got his undergraduate's in Natural science in 1995 from Albion College in Michigan.Discover more about International Spaceport station research and procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.