.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 organization around several programs, consisting of 157 days in space and three spacewalks. Cassada additionally is a retired United States Naval force leader and marine pilot along with greater than two decades of service.Cassada served as aviator of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission and also Exploration 68 tour developer aboard the International Spaceport station, performing myriad upkeep, contingency, and upgrade activities inside the terminal while also bring about numerous experiments and technology demonstrations. His three spacewalks outside of the orbiting research laboratory amounted to greater than 21 hours, efficiently putting up a set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to enhance the place's electric capability. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, additionally put together the infrastructure for a future IROSA installation and also completely recovered a malfunctioning legacy solar variety." I would like to stretch my truthful thankfulness to Josh for his devotion and also company to human space exploration," stated NASA Johnson Room Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments as well as success to the innovation of science as well as exploration will influence the next generation of explorers, the Artemis generation, and also advantage humankind for years to follow.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada and his crewmates finished considerable analytical with ground groups, featuring the alteration of the SpaceX Dragon space probe to accommodate an extra team member in the event of an urgent come back, and also leveraged the crew's different capability and instruction to ensure ongoing risk-free and also reliable functions for current as well as future workers.In Houston, Cassada served as a capsule communicator in NASA's Purpose Management Facility and assistant to the main of the Astronaut Workplace for space station procedures. As a physicist as well as exam fly, Cassada likewise brought about the advancement of NASA's Commercial Team Plan as well as Orion spacecraft and represented the Astronaut Office in technical as well as operational customer reviews of clinical practices including the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and also Cold Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually played a substantial function in NASA's deliverance of trusted and also affordable individual transit to and also coming from the spaceport station," said Rule Knight, director of flight operations at NASA Johnson. "Via his commitment as well as commitment to human spaceflight expedition, Josh's work will certainly remain to drive our team ahead on our journey back to the Moon, and also beyond. Our team will definitely overlook him and are actually excited to view what his next adventure entails.".As he transitions from authorities service, Cassada will certainly go back to the economic sector, dealing with extremely reduced lighting discovery technologies with vast as well as developing uses in various places, consisting of quantum systems as well as processing, distant sensing, long-range communication, semiconductor production, as well as medical imaging." I am actually very thankful for my a lot of options listed below at NASA," Cassada mentioned, "as well as specifically to have actually served alongside a few of the absolute most incredible people each on as well as off our world, completing points that are only possible when we function as well as introduce all together as a crew. As people, our experts discover. And also each medical adventure, whether in a lab on Earth or even in space, demands nerve to look into as well as advance society. I am actually extremely blessed to have actually been surrounded through explorers during the course of my whole profession so far as well as going forward. An expedition might appear overwhelming, yet it's a lot less therefore when you are actually equipped as well as with the right crewmates.".Prior to his option through NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Lesson, Cassada gained his doctorate in High Energy Bit Natural Science from the University of Rochester, Nyc and was actually an USA Naval force captain, trainer aviator, exam captain, and also coach examination fly. Throughout his occupation, Cassada has actually built up much more than 4,000 tour hours in over 50 different airplane and has been actually awarded numerous armed forces and also noncombatant awards.Cassada earned a degree coming from White Bear Lake Region Senior High School in Minnesota in 1991 and acquired his bachelor's in Natural science in 1995 coming from Albion College in Michigan.Learn more about International Spaceport station study and also procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.