.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of solution to the agency across multiple plans, featuring 157 times precede and also three spacewalks. Cassada also is actually a retired United States Navy leader as well as marine flyer along with much more than 20 years of solution.Cassada worked as pilot of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 objective and Expedition 68 air travel designer aboard the International Spaceport station, carrying out myriad routine maintenance, backup, and upgrade activities inside the station while also contributing to thousands of practices as well as technology demonstrations. His three spacewalks outside of the orbiting lab completed much more than 21 hrs, efficiently installing a set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the station's electric capacity. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, likewise set up the structure for a potential IROSA setup as well as fully repaired a malfunctioning heritage photovoltaic range." I desire to expand my truthful thankfulness to Josh for his devotion as well as company to human area expedition," said NASA Johnson Room Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments and also achievements to the improvement of scientific research as well as expedition will influence the newest generation of explorers, the Artemis production, and advantage humankind for many years to come.".Throughout Exploration 68, Cassada and his crewmates finished comprehensive analytical with ground staffs, including the adjustment of the SpaceX Dragon space probe to accommodate an extra crew member in the unlikely event of an unexpected emergency come back, and leveraged the staff's a variety of capability and also training to guarantee continuing secure and successful operations for current as well as future crews.In Houston, Cassada functioned as a capsule communicator in NASA's Purpose Control Facility and assistant to the chief of the Astronaut Workplace for spaceport station functions. As a scientist as well as examination aviator, Cassada also brought about the progression of NASA's Office Workers Program and Orion space probe as well as stood for the Astronaut Office in technical and operational reviews of scientific experiments like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and also Cold Weather Atom Lab." Josh has participated in a significant part in NASA's delivery of trustworthy as well as affordable individual transportation to as well as from the spaceport station," stated Standard Knight, director of tour functions at NASA Johnson. "By means of his devotion and commitment to individual spaceflight expedition, Josh's job will definitely continue to push us forward on our experience back to the Moon, and past. Our experts are going to overlook him as well as are thrilled to view what his next journey involves.".As he transitions coming from federal government solution, Cassada will go back to the private sector, working with remarkably low lighting diagnosis modern technologies along with broad and also surfacing uses in a variety of regions, featuring quantum networks and processing, distant picking up, long-range communication, semiconductor manufacturing, as well as clinical imaging." I am unbelievably happy for my several possibilities here at NASA," Cassada pointed out, "and particularly to have actually offered alongside a few of one of the most remarkable individuals each on as well as off our planet, achieving points that are merely achievable when our experts function and introduce all together as a group. As human beings, our company explore. As well as each scientific adventure, whether in a lab in the world or precede, needs courage to explore and advance community. I am extremely privileged to have been encompassed through travelers in the course of my whole entire profession thus far and also going ahead. An exploration might seem daunting, however it's a whole lot much less thus when you're well prepared as well as along with the best crewmates.".Just before his selection through NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Lesson, Cassada gained his doctoral in High Electricity Particle Physics coming from the Educational Institution of Rochester, Nyc and also was actually an U.S. Navy fly, coach pilot, exam fly, and also coach examination aviator. Throughout his job, Cassada has actually accumulated more than 4,000 flight hours in over fifty different plane and has actually been actually rewarded a variety of army as well as private awards.Cassada earned a degree coming from White Bear Lake Place Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 as well as obtained his bachelor's in Physics in 1995 from Albion College in Michigan.Learn more about International Spaceport station analysis as well as procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.