.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of company to the agency around several plans, featuring 157 days in space and three spacewalks. Cassada also is actually a retired USA Navy captain and naval aviator along with much more than two decades of service.Cassada functioned as pilot of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 objective as well as Trip 68 trip engineer aboard the International Spaceport station, performing myriad servicing, emergency, as well as upgrade activities inside the terminal while also resulting in thousands of experiments and also technology demonstrations. His three spacewalks away from the orbiting laboratory completed greater than 21 hours, properly putting up a pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to enhance the place's electric capability. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, also set up the framework for a potential IROSA installation as well as entirely repaired a malfunctioning legacy sun variety." I intend to prolong my honest gratitude to Josh for his devotion as well as solution to individual room expedition," claimed NASA Johnson Space Facility Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments as well as achievements to the innovation of science as well as exploration are going to influence the newest generation of explorers, the Artemis creation, as well as perk humankind for many years to come.".Throughout Exploration 68, Cassada and his crewmates finished extensive problem-solving along with ground teams, consisting of the customization of the SpaceX Monster space capsule to accommodate an added team member in the event of an emergency come back, and also leveraged the team's a variety of ability and training to guarantee continuing safe as well as reliable functions for present and potential teams.In Houston, Cassada acted as a pill communicator in NASA's Mission Management Center and also associate to the main of the Astronaut Workplace for space station operations. As a physicist and test fly, Cassada also contributed to the advancement of NASA's Commercial Workers System and also Orion spacecraft and embodied the Astronaut Office in specialized and also working customer reviews of scientific experiments such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has participated in a significant job in NASA's saving of reputable as well as cost-efficient human transit to and coming from the spaceport station," said Standard Knight, director of flight functions at NASA Johnson. "Via his devotion and devotion to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's job will continue to push our company onward on our adventure back to the Moon, as well as past. Our company will definitely skip him and also are actually thrilled to see what his following journey involves.".As he transitions from government company, Cassada will go back to the private sector, working with remarkably low illumination discovery technologies along with broad as well as surfacing uses in several areas, featuring quantum networks and also computer, remote noticing, long-range communication, semiconductor production, and health care imaging." I am incredibly happy for my numerous opportunities here at NASA," Cassada mentioned, "and also specifically to have actually provided together with some of the best fantastic people both on and off our earth, performing factors that are only possible when our experts operate as well as innovate with each other as a crew. As humans, we look into. And also each medical adventure, whether in a lab on Earth or even in space, calls for nerve to discover and develop culture. I am extremely fortunate to have actually been neighbored by travelers throughout my whole entire occupation thus far as well as going ahead. An exploration may seem complicated, however it is actually a great deal less thus when you're well prepared and also with the ideal crewmates.".Before his collection by NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Class, Cassada gained his doctorate in High Electricity Particle Physics from the University of Rochester, Nyc and also was actually a united state Navy pilot, teacher aviator, examination fly, and coach examination aviator. Throughout his job, Cassada has actually accumulated much more than 4,000 air travel hours in over 50 different aircraft as well as has actually been actually awarded numerous military and noncombatant awards.Cassada graduated coming from White Bear Pond Area High School in Minnesota in 1991 and also got his bachelor's in Natural science in 1995 from Albion University in Michigan.Find out more about International Space Station research and procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.