.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 organization across several plans, featuring 157 times in space and also three spacewalks. Cassada also is a retired United States Navy captain as well as naval aviator along with much more than 20 years of company.Cassada served as aviator of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission and Exploration 68 flight engineer aboard the International Space Station, executing myriad routine maintenance, contingency, and upgrade tasks inside the station while also supporting manies experiments and innovation demonstrations. His three spacewalks beyond the orbiting research laboratory totted more than 21 hours, successfully putting in a set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the station's electrical capability. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, likewise assembled the facilities for a potential IROSA installation and also fully restored a malfunctioning tradition solar energy array." I desire to prolong my genuine thankfulness to Josh for his commitment and company to individual room expedition," stated NASA Johnson Space Facility Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions and achievements to the development of scientific research as well as exploration are going to encourage the next generation of travelers, the Artemis production, and also advantage humanity for decades ahead.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates accomplished significant problem-solving with ground groups, consisting of the customization of the SpaceX Dragon space capsule to accommodate an extra workers member in case of an emergency situation come back, and leveraged the staff's numerous ability as well as training to make certain continued safe as well as successful operations for existing and future crews.In Houston, Cassada served as a capsule communicator in NASA's Goal Management Facility and associate to the principal of the Rocketeer Workplace for spaceport station operations. As a physicist and also exam aviator, Cassada also brought about the progression of NASA's Commercial Workers Program and also Orion spacecraft and also embodied the Rocketeer Workplace in technological as well as operational customer reviews of clinical experiments like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and also Cold Weather Atom Lab." Josh has actually participated in a substantial part in NASA's delivery of dependable as well as affordable individual transit to and coming from the spaceport station," pointed out Norm Knight, supervisor of tour procedures at NASA Johnson. "With his dedication and also dedication to human spaceflight expedition, Josh's job are going to remain to press our team onward on our journey back to the Moon, and also past. Our experts will definitely overlook him and are thrilled to view what his next journey necessitates.".As he transitions coming from government service, Cassada will definitely come back to the private sector, servicing remarkably reduced light detection technologies along with extensive as well as arising applications in different places, featuring quantum systems as well as processing, remote control noticing, long-range interaction, semiconductor manufacturing, as well as clinical image resolution." I am actually astonishingly thankful for my lots of opportunities right here at NASA," Cassada claimed, "and particularly to have offered together with some of the absolute most incredible individuals each on and also off our planet, completing things that are actually just possible when our company operate and also innovate all together as a staff. As human beings, our experts explore. As well as each scientific adventure, whether in a lab in the world or in space, calls for tenacity to discover and develop community. I am extremely lucky to have actually been actually surrounded by travelers throughout my whole entire career so far and going ahead. An expedition may seem complicated, but it is actually a lot less so when you are actually well prepared as well as along with the correct crewmates.".Prior to his assortment through NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Training class, Cassada gained his doctoral in High Power Bit Physics from the University of Rochester, New York City and was actually an USA Naval force captain, trainer captain, examination pilot, as well as coach exam pilot. Throughout his occupation, Cassada has actually collected more than 4,000 tour hours in over 50 various plane and has actually been awarded different military as well as private awards.Cassada earned a degree coming from White Bear Pond Place High School in Minnesota in 1991 and also acquired his undergraduate's in Natural science in 1995 from Albion College in Michigan.Learn more about International Spaceport station analysis as well as functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.