.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of service to the agency across a number of programs, featuring 157 days in space as well as 3 spacewalks. Cassada also is actually a retired USA Navy leader and naval aviator along with more than 20 years of company.Cassada acted as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 purpose and Trip 68 air travel engineer aboard the International Space Station, implementing myriad servicing, backup, and also upgrade activities inside the station while likewise adding to manies experiments and also technology demonstrations. His three spacewalks outside of the orbiting research laboratory totted much more than 21 hrs, successfully mounting a pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to boost the station's electrical ability. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, additionally set up the facilities for a potential IROSA installment and also fully brought back a malfunctioning tradition photo voltaic selection." I wish to expand my sincere appreciation to Josh for his devotion and company to human area expedition," pointed out NASA Johnson Room Facility Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments as well as accomplishments to the innovation of science and also exploration will definitely influence the newest generation of explorers, the Artemis generation, and also advantage humanity for many years to come.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada and his crewmates accomplished considerable analytic along with ground staffs, featuring the alteration of the SpaceX Monster spacecraft to accommodate an extra staff participant in case of an urgent return, and also leveraged the team's a variety of capability as well as training to guarantee continued safe and also efficient operations for present and future teams.In Houston, Cassada worked as a capsule communicator in NASA's Goal Management Center as well as associate to the main of the Rocketeer Workplace for spaceport station operations. As a physicist and also examination aviator, Cassada likewise contributed to the progression of NASA's Industrial Crew Plan as well as Orion spacecraft and worked with the Astronaut Workplace in technical and operational assessments of clinical practices like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has played a considerable task in NASA's deliverance of reliable and cost-efficient human transportation to and coming from the space station," said Rule Knight, supervisor of flight procedures at NASA Johnson. "Via his dedication as well as devotion to human spaceflight expedition, Josh's work will continue to drive our team forward on our experience back to the Moon, and past. Our team will certainly skip him as well as are actually thrilled to see what his following experience includes.".As he transitions coming from government solution, Cassada will certainly come back to the economic sector, servicing exceptionally reduced light detection technologies with vast and arising uses in numerous locations, featuring quantum systems and also computer, distant picking up, long-range communication, semiconductor manufacturing, and also health care image resolution." I am exceptionally grateful for my several opportunities right here at NASA," Cassada claimed, "as well as particularly to have actually provided alongside a number of the absolute most incredible folks each on as well as off our planet, accomplishing traits that are only feasible when our experts operate as well as introduce with each other as a team. As people, our team check out. And each clinical experience, whether in a laboratory on Earth or precede, demands tenacity to discover and develop culture. I am actually surprisingly fortunate to have actually been bordered by travelers in the course of my whole entire career up until now and also going forward. A trip might seem to be daunting, but it's a great deal much less thus when you are actually well prepared and along with the right crewmates.".Just before his collection by NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Lesson, Cassada got his doctoral in High Power Particle Natural Science from the Educational Institution of Rochester, New York City as well as was a united state Navy pilot, trainer pilot, examination pilot, and also trainer exam pilot. Throughout his job, Cassada has actually built up more than 4,000 trip hrs in over 50 different airplane as well as has been granted several military and noncombatant honors.Cassada finished from White Bear Pond Place High School in Minnesota in 1991 and received his undergraduate's in Natural science in 1995 coming from Albion College in Michigan.Find out more regarding International Spaceport station study and functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.