.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA astronaut Josh Cassada resigned Oct. 1, after 11 years of company to the organization throughout a number of systems, including 157 days in space as well as 3 spacewalks. Cassada additionally is a retired USA Navy captain as well as marine aviator with more than twenty years of solution.Cassada functioned as pilot of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 objective and also Exploration 68 trip developer aboard the International Space Station, carrying out myriad servicing, contingency, and also upgrade activities inside the terminal while additionally supporting dozens experiments and innovation manifestations. His 3 spacewalks beyond the orbiting lab totaled much more than 21 hours, successfully putting in a pair of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the station's electrical capacity. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, additionally assembled the facilities for a future IROSA installment as well as entirely restored a malfunctioning tradition photo voltaic collection." I intend to prolong my sincere gratefulness to Josh for his devotion as well as company to human area expedition," said NASA Johnson Area Center Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments and also success to the development of science and exploration will definitely motivate the newest generation of travelers, the Artemis production, and advantage mankind for years to come.".Throughout Exploration 68, Cassada and also his crewmates accomplished comprehensive problem-solving with ground staffs, including the adjustment of the SpaceX Monster space capsule to accommodate an additional crew member in the unlikely event of an emergency situation return, as well as leveraged the staff's numerous capability and training to make certain ongoing secure and efficient operations for existing as well as potential crews.In Houston, Cassada functioned as a pill communicator in NASA's Purpose Management Facility as well as associate to the main of the Rocketeer Workplace for spaceport station operations. As a physicist as well as exam pilot, Cassada likewise contributed to the development of NASA's Industrial Team Course as well as Orion space capsule and worked with the Rocketeer Office in specialized and also working customer reviews of scientific practices like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually participated in a substantial function in NASA's saving of trusted and affordable human transportation to and also coming from the space station," claimed Rule Knight, director of air travel functions at NASA Johnson. "By means of his dedication and commitment to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's job will definitely remain to drive our team forward on our adventure back to the Moon, and beyond. Our experts are going to miss him and also are actually thrilled to view what his next quest necessitates.".As he transitions from federal government solution, Cassada will certainly come back to the economic sector, working with remarkably low illumination detection technologies with vast and emerging treatments in several areas, consisting of quantum systems as well as computer, remote sensing, long-range communication, semiconductor manufacturing, and clinical imaging." I am astonishingly grateful for my many possibilities below at NASA," Cassada said, "and also specifically to have actually provided along with a number of the absolute most outstanding people both on and off our planet, achieving points that are merely achievable when our company operate and also innovate all together as a group. As humans, our team explore. And also each medical adventure, whether in a laboratory on Earth or in space, demands nerve to discover and also develop community. I am surprisingly fortunate to have actually been actually encompassed through travelers in the course of my whole occupation so far and also moving forward. An exploration might seem to be challenging, however it's a great deal much less therefore when you're prepared and also along with the ideal crewmates.".Before his option through NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Training class, Cassada got his doctorate in High Electricity Bit Natural Science from the Educational Institution of Rochester, New York City and was an USA Navy fly, coach pilot, exam captain, and also coach test pilot. Throughout his career, Cassada has gathered greater than 4,000 trip hours in over fifty various aircraft and also has actually been actually awarded several military and noncombatant honors.Cassada got a degree from White Bear Pond Region High School in Minnesota in 1991 and obtained his undergraduate's in Natural science in 1995 from Albion University in Michigan.Learn more regarding International Space Station research as well as procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.