.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Relinquish NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of company to the organization around multiple courses, featuring 157 days precede and also 3 spacewalks. Cassada additionally is actually a retired United States Naval force leader and also marine aviator along with more than twenty years of service.Cassada worked as pilot of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission and Expedition 68 air travel engineer aboard the International Space Station, executing myriad routine maintenance, backup, and upgrade activities inside the terminal while also contributing to dozens experiments and modern technology demonstrations. His three spacewalks away from the orbiting lab totaled much more than 21 hours, effectively mounting a set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the station's electrical capacity. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, additionally put together the framework for a future IROSA installation and fully restored a malfunctioning tradition solar selection." I wish to prolong my sincere thankfulness to Josh for his commitment and solution to human space exploration," pointed out NASA Johnson Space Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments as well as achievements to the innovation of science as well as exploration will definitely encourage the newest generation of travelers, the Artemis generation, as well as perk humankind for years to come.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates completed considerable analytic with ground staffs, consisting of the customization of the SpaceX Dragon space capsule to suit an additional staff participant in the event of an emergency return, as well as leveraged the staff's a variety of capability and instruction to guarantee continued secure as well as effective procedures for present as well as future workers.In Houston, Cassada functioned as a capsule communicator in NASA's Goal Management Facility and also assistant to the chief of the Astronaut Workplace for spaceport station procedures. As a physicist and also examination captain, Cassada also resulted in the growth of NASA's Industrial Crew Program and also Orion spacecraft and stood for the Rocketeer Workplace in technical and functional assessments of scientific experiments including the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Atom Lab." Josh has actually played a significant duty in NASA's deliverance of reliable and economical human transit to and also coming from the space station," pointed out Rule Knight, supervisor of trip operations at NASA Johnson. "Through his commitment as well as devotion to individual spaceflight exploration, Josh's job are going to continue to press us forward on our adventure back to the Moon, and past. Our experts will definitely overlook him and are thrilled to observe what his upcoming trip calls for.".As he transitions coming from federal government service, Cassada will certainly go back to the economic sector, working on incredibly low lighting discovery innovations with extensive as well as arising applications in several areas, featuring quantum networks and also computer, remote control noticing, long-range interaction, semiconductor production, and health care imaging." I am exceptionally happy for my many possibilities below at NASA," Cassada claimed, "and especially to have actually provided together with some of the most impressive folks each on and also off our world, performing things that are actually just possible when our team operate and also introduce all together as a group. As human beings, our experts check out. As well as each scientific journey, whether in a lab on Earth or even precede, needs nerve to check out and develop society. I am incredibly blessed to have been actually bordered through explorers during my whole job thus far as well as moving forward. An exploration may seem complicated, however it is actually a whole lot less thus when you are actually prepared and also along with the ideal crewmates.".Before his selection through NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Training class, Cassada got his doctorate in High Power Fragment Physics from the University of Rochester, Nyc as well as was an U.S. Naval force fly, trainer pilot, exam captain, and teacher test aviator. Throughout his career, Cassada has actually accumulated much more than 4,000 flight hrs in over 50 various aircraft and also has been actually granted different army and also private honors.Cassada earned a degree from White Bear Pond Area Senior High School in Minnesota in 1991 and acquired his bachelor's in Physics in 1995 coming from Albion College in Michigan.Learn more regarding International Space Station research study and also procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.