.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada resigned Oct. 1, after 11 years of company to the company throughout multiple programs, featuring 157 days in space and 3 spacewalks. Cassada additionally is actually a retired USA Naval force leader as well as naval aviator along with more than 20 years of company.Cassada worked as pilot of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission and also Expedition 68 trip developer aboard the International Space Station, carrying out myriad upkeep, emergency, as well as upgrade activities inside the station while also contributing to thousands of practices and modern technology demonstrations. His three spacewalks outside of the orbiting research laboratory totaled greater than 21 hours, properly putting up a set of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the place's electric capability. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, also put together the framework for a future IROSA installation as well as fully repaired a malfunctioning heritage solar energy variety." I want to stretch my honest Thanksgiving to Josh for his devotion and also solution to human area expedition," claimed NASA Johnson Area Facility Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments and also achievements to the advancement of scientific research as well as expedition are going to inspire the next generation of travelers, the Artemis generation, as well as advantage humanity for many years ahead.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada and also his crewmates finished substantial analytical along with ground crews, consisting of the alteration of the SpaceX Monster spacecraft to suit an extra team participant in case of an emergency come back, as well as leveraged the staff's numerous capability as well as training to make certain continuous safe and also effective operations for existing as well as future workers.In Houston, Cassada served as a capsule communicator in NASA's Purpose Management Center as well as assistant to the principal of the Rocketeer Office for space station functions. As a physicist as well as exam aviator, Cassada additionally brought about the advancement of NASA's Commercial Crew System and Orion space probe as well as exemplified the Rocketeer Workplace in technical and working evaluations of scientific experiments including the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Atom Lab." Josh has actually participated in a significant job in NASA's saving of trusted and also economical individual transport to and also from the space station," pointed out Rule Knight, director of air travel operations at NASA Johnson. "Via his devotion and dedication to individual spaceflight exploration, Josh's work will certainly continue to drive our team onward on our journey back to the Moon, and also past. Our team will certainly miss him as well as are thrilled to find what his upcoming quest calls for.".As he transitions coming from federal government solution, Cassada is going to come back to the private sector, working with very reduced illumination detection innovations with broad as well as arising requests in different places, including quantum networks and processing, remote sensing, long-range communication, semiconductor manufacturing, as well as medical imaging." I am actually astonishingly thankful for my several possibilities listed here at NASA," Cassada claimed, "and particularly to have actually offered along with a few of one of the most incredible individuals both on and also off our world, achieving traits that are simply possible when we function as well as innovate together as a group. As humans, we look into. And also each clinical adventure, whether in a laboratory on Earth or precede, calls for tenacity to discover and also advance community. I am actually incredibly privileged to have been actually bordered by travelers throughout my whole entire job until now and going ahead. A trip may seem to be overwhelming, yet it is actually a whole lot less therefore when you are actually ready as well as with the ideal crewmates.".Prior to his collection by NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Lesson, Cassada earned his doctoral in High Energy Particle Physics from the Educational Institution of Rochester, New York City and also was a united state Navy captain, coach pilot, examination pilot, and also teacher exam pilot. Throughout his occupation, Cassada has collected greater than 4,000 tour hrs in over fifty various plane as well as has been awarded several army as well as private honors.Cassada graduated coming from White Bear Lake Place Senior High School in Minnesota in 1991 as well as received his bachelor's in Physics in 1995 coming from Albion University in Michigan.Learn more regarding International Space Station study and operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.