.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA astronaut Josh Cassada resigned Oct. 1, after 11 years of solution to the agency around multiple programs, consisting of 157 days in space and also 3 spacewalks. Cassada also is a retired USA Navy captain as well as naval pilot along with much more than two decades of company.Cassada functioned as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 purpose as well as Exploration 68 trip engineer aboard the International Spaceport station, performing myriad maintenance, contingency, and also upgrade activities inside the station while additionally supporting hundreds of experiments and modern technology manifestations. His 3 spacewalks beyond the orbiting research laboratory totted greater than 21 hrs, successfully setting up a set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the station's electric capability. Cassada, together with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, likewise put together the structure for a potential IROSA installment and entirely repaired a malfunctioning tradition photo voltaic collection." I intend to extend my sincere appreciation to Josh for his commitment and also solution to human room expedition," stated NASA Johnson Room Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments and also achievements to the improvement of science as well as exploration are going to motivate the future generation of explorers, the Artemis creation, and perk humankind for years ahead.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates finished comprehensive analytic with ground crews, consisting of the adjustment of the SpaceX Monster spacecraft to accommodate an added workers member in the event of an unexpected emergency return, and leveraged the team's various capability and also training to guarantee continued risk-free as well as efficient procedures for current as well as future crews.In Houston, Cassada worked as a pill communicator in NASA's Goal Control Center as well as assistant to the main of the Rocketeer Office for spaceport station operations. As a physicist and exam aviator, Cassada also helped in the development of NASA's Office Crew Course as well as Orion space probe and also stood for the Astronaut Office in specialized as well as operational evaluations of medical practices such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Atom Lab." Josh has played a notable task in NASA's saving of dependable and economical human transportation to and coming from the space station," stated Rule Knight, director of air travel operations at NASA Johnson. "With his dedication and devotion to individual spaceflight expedition, Josh's job are going to remain to push us ahead on our adventure back to the Moon, as well as past. Our company will skip him and also are actually excited to find what his following adventure includes.".As he transitions coming from federal government company, Cassada will certainly go back to the private sector, servicing remarkably reduced illumination diagnosis innovations with wide and also developing uses in different places, including quantum systems and computer, distant picking up, long-range communication, semiconductor manufacturing, and medical image resolution." I am unbelievably grateful for my several options listed here at NASA," Cassada claimed, "as well as specifically to have actually offered together with a number of the best outstanding folks both on and also off our world, performing points that are simply possible when our company function and also innovate together as a group. As people, we explore. And also each medical adventure, whether in a lab on Earth or precede, demands tenacity to explore as well as develop community. I am actually exceptionally lucky to have actually been bordered by explorers during the course of my whole entire occupation thus far as well as going forward. An exploration might seem to be challenging, but it is actually a whole lot much less therefore when you're ready as well as with the right crewmates.".Just before his choice through NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Course, Cassada gained his doctorate in High Energy Fragment Physics coming from the Educational Institution of Rochester, New York City and also was actually an USA Navy fly, trainer captain, test captain, and also teacher test fly. Throughout his job, Cassada has actually collected greater than 4,000 tour hrs in over fifty various aircraft as well as has actually been rewarded a variety of army and noncombatant honors.Cassada finished coming from White Bear Lake Region High School in Minnesota in 1991 and acquired his undergraduate's in Natural science in 1995 coming from Albion University in Michigan.Find out more about International Space Station study and also procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.