.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 throughout numerous systems, featuring 157 times precede as well as 3 spacewalks. Cassada likewise is actually a retired USA Navy leader as well as marine flyer along with much more than two decades of service.Cassada worked as pilot of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 purpose and Trip 68 tour engineer aboard the International Space Station, implementing myriad upkeep, contingency, as well as upgrade activities inside the station while additionally resulting in dozens practices as well as technology demonstrations. His 3 spacewalks outside of the orbiting laboratory amounted to more than 21 hours, effectively putting up a pair of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to improve the place's power capacity. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, also set up the framework for a future IROSA installment as well as totally recovered a malfunctioning heritage solar variety." I wish to stretch my earnest Thanksgiving to Josh for his dedication and also solution to individual room exploration," stated NASA Johnson Area Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's additions as well as achievements to the advancement of science and also exploration are going to encourage the future generation of travelers, the Artemis production, as well as benefit humanity for decades to find.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada and also his crewmates finished significant analytical with ground staffs, including the customization of the SpaceX Dragon space capsule to suit an extra staff participant in the unlikely event of an unexpected emergency profits, and also leveraged the crew's various ability and also instruction to ensure continuing secure and also reliable functions for existing and future workers.In Houston, Cassada acted as a capsule communicator in NASA's Objective Command Center and also aide to the main of the Rocketeer Office for spaceport station functions. As a physicist as well as exam fly, Cassada likewise added to the advancement of NASA's Business Workers System and also Orion space probe as well as worked with the Astronaut Workplace in technological and also operational reviews of scientific experiments such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Atom Laboratory." Josh has participated in a considerable task in NASA's deliverance of dependable as well as cost-effective individual transportation to and also coming from the space station," claimed Standard Knight, director of air travel operations at NASA Johnson. "Through his commitment as well as commitment to human spaceflight expedition, Josh's work are going to continue to press us ahead on our journey back to the Moon, and beyond. Our team will definitely skip him and are actually excited to see what his upcoming journey calls for.".As he transitions coming from federal government solution, Cassada will certainly return to the private sector, servicing incredibly reduced light discovery technologies along with broad as well as arising treatments in a variety of regions, consisting of quantum systems and also computer, distant noticing, long-range communication, semiconductor production, and health care image resolution." I am actually extremely grateful for my lots of options listed here at NASA," Cassada claimed, "and particularly to have actually offered along with a number of the absolute most incredible people each on and also off our planet, accomplishing traits that are merely possible when our team operate and also introduce all together as a staff. As humans, our team check out. And also each scientific journey, whether in a laboratory on Earth or even precede, calls for guts to explore and also develop community. I am actually unbelievably blessed to have been actually neighbored through explorers throughout my entire career thus far and also going ahead. An exploration might seem overwhelming, however it is actually a lot much less so when you're prepared and along with the right crewmates.".Prior to his option through NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Class, Cassada earned his doctorate in High Energy Bit Physics coming from the University of Rochester, New York City and also was an USA Navy aviator, instructor captain, exam aviator, and also instructor test captain. Throughout his occupation, Cassada has actually accumulated greater than 4,000 air travel hours in over fifty different airplane and also has been granted different military and private honors.Cassada earned a degree coming from White Bear Lake Region High School in Minnesota in 1991 and got his bachelor's in Natural science in 1995 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.