.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA astronaut Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of company to the organization throughout several courses, including 157 days precede and 3 spacewalks. Cassada also is actually a retired United States Naval force captain and marine flyer along with much more than 20 years of service.Cassada acted as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 objective and also Expedition 68 tour engineer aboard the International Spaceport station, executing myriad upkeep, contingency, and also upgrade activities inside the station while also supporting numerous practices as well as technology demonstrations. His 3 spacewalks away from the orbiting research laboratory totaled greater than 21 hours, effectively setting up a pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to boost the station's electric capability. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, also put together the infrastructure for a future IROSA installment and totally recovered a malfunctioning legacy photovoltaic collection." I would like to expand my genuine appreciation to Josh for his devotion and solution to individual room exploration," claimed NASA Johnson Area Center Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions as well as success to the improvement of science as well as exploration will definitely encourage the newest generation of explorers, the Artemis production, as well as benefit humanity for many years to follow.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada and also his crewmates completed substantial analytical along with ground staffs, featuring the alteration of the SpaceX Monster space capsule to accommodate an additional staff participant in case of an unexpected emergency come back, as well as leveraged the team's numerous ability as well as training to make sure continuous safe and also efficient procedures for existing as well as future crews.In Houston, Cassada functioned as a capsule communicator in NASA's Goal Command Center as well as assistant to the principal of the Astronaut Office for spaceport station operations. As a physicist and also test aviator, Cassada likewise added to the growth of NASA's Industrial Crew Plan and Orion space probe as well as worked with the Astronaut Office in technological and working testimonials of clinical practices including the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually participated in a notable job in NASA's deliverance of reliable as well as cost-effective individual transit to as well as from the space station," stated Rule Knight, supervisor of air travel procedures at NASA Johnson. "Via his commitment as well as dedication to individual spaceflight exploration, Josh's job will continue to drive our team forward on our experience back to the Moon, and beyond. Our team will overlook him and are thrilled to find what his next journey requires.".As he transitions from federal government solution, Cassada will certainly return to the private sector, servicing remarkably low illumination diagnosis technologies with wide and surfacing uses in numerous locations, consisting of quantum networks and also processing, remote control picking up, long-range interaction, semiconductor production, as well as medical image resolution." I am actually incredibly grateful for my a lot of possibilities below at NASA," Cassada pointed out, "as well as specifically to have offered alongside a few of one of the most incredible folks each on and off our earth, accomplishing factors that are simply possible when our company operate as well as introduce together as a crew. As people, our company check out. And each clinical experience, whether in a laboratory in the world or in space, needs courage to explore and also develop society. I am extremely lucky to have actually been actually bordered by travelers during the course of my entire career thus far and also moving forward. A trip may seem to be complicated, however it's a great deal much less therefore when you're prepared as well as along with the correct crewmates.".Prior to his choice through NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Class, Cassada gained his doctoral in High Energy Particle Physics coming from the Educational Institution of Rochester, New York and was an U.S. Navy aviator, coach aviator, examination pilot, and also trainer test pilot. Throughout his profession, Cassada has actually built up much more than 4,000 flight hours in over fifty different aircraft as well as has been actually awarded a variety of armed forces as well as noncombatant awards.Cassada got a degree from White Bear Pond Place Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 and acquired his bachelor's in Physics in 1995 coming from Albion College in Michigan.Learn more concerning International Space Station investigation and also functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.