.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 firm all over numerous plans, including 157 days precede and three spacewalks. Cassada also is a retired United States Navy captain as well as marine aviator along with much more than two decades of company.Cassada acted as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 purpose and Trip 68 air travel developer aboard the International Spaceport station, carrying out myriad upkeep, emergency, and also upgrade tasks inside the station while likewise bring about dozens experiments and modern technology demonstrations. His three spacewalks away from the orbiting lab amounted to greater than 21 hrs, properly installing a set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to enhance the place's electric capability. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, also put together the framework for a future IROSA installation and totally repaired a malfunctioning tradition solar collection." I would like to stretch my truthful gratitude to Josh for his dedication and solution to human room expedition," claimed NASA Johnson Space Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments and also success to the innovation of science and exploration will definitely encourage the next generation of travelers, the Artemis production, and perk mankind for many years to find.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada and also his crewmates finished considerable problem-solving with ground crews, including the alteration of the SpaceX Monster spacecraft to fit an additional team participant in the unlikely event of an emergency situation return, and leveraged the staff's a variety of ability and also training to make certain continuous risk-free and reliable functions for present and also potential teams.In Houston, Cassada worked as a pill communicator in NASA's Goal Management Center and aide to the chief of the Rocketeer Office for space station functions. As a physicist as well as examination aviator, Cassada likewise contributed to the advancement of NASA's Office Crew Plan and also Orion spacecraft as well as represented the Rocketeer Workplace in technological and also operational customer reviews of clinical practices like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and also Cold Weather Atom Lab." Josh has actually participated in a notable function in NASA's saving of reputable and also cost-effective human transport to and coming from the space station," said Norm Knight, director of tour procedures at NASA Johnson. "Via his dedication and devotion to human spaceflight expedition, Josh's job will definitely remain to drive our company ahead on our adventure back to the Moon, and beyond. Our company will miss him and also are actually delighted to see what his upcoming journey includes.".As he transitions coming from authorities service, Cassada will certainly come back to the private sector, focusing on very reduced light detection technologies along with extensive and arising treatments in numerous regions, featuring quantum networks and also processing, remote picking up, long-range interaction, semiconductor production, as well as health care imaging." I am actually extremely thankful for my a lot of options right here at NASA," Cassada said, "and also particularly to have provided along with a few of the best outstanding individuals both on and off our world, accomplishing factors that are simply achievable when we operate and also introduce together as a crew. As humans, we explore. As well as each medical journey, whether in a lab in the world or in space, demands tenacity to discover as well as develop society. I am actually surprisingly fortunate to have been surrounded through travelers in the course of my entire profession up until now and going ahead. An expedition might appear complicated, however it's a lot much less therefore when you are actually prepared and along with the correct crewmates.".Just before his option through NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Training class, Cassada got his doctoral in High Electricity Bit Natural Science from the Educational Institution of Rochester, New York and was actually a united state Navy aviator, coach fly, exam aviator, and coach examination fly. Throughout his occupation, Cassada has actually gathered more than 4,000 tour hrs in over 50 various airplane and also has been awarded different army and also civilian awards.Cassada graduated from White Bear Pond Place Senior High School in Minnesota in 1991 and also got his bachelor's in Physics in 1995 coming from Albion University in Michigan.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station research and functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.