.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Relinquish NASA.NASA astronaut Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of service to the agency around numerous systems, including 157 times in space as well as 3 spacewalks. Cassada also is actually a retired USA Navy leader and also marine pilot with greater than twenty years of solution.Cassada worked as fly of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 objective and also Exploration 68 air travel engineer aboard the International Spaceport station, carrying out myriad servicing, emergency, and also upgrade activities inside the station while additionally helping in manies experiments as well as innovation demonstrations. His three spacewalks beyond the orbiting lab totaled greater than 21 hours, successfully setting up a set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to boost the place's electric capability. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, likewise put together the commercial infrastructure for a future IROSA setup and also entirely repaired a malfunctioning tradition sunlight collection." I would like to expand my honest gratefulness to Josh for his devotion as well as service to human area expedition," claimed NASA Johnson Area Facility Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions and also success to the advancement of scientific research and expedition will definitely motivate the newest generation of travelers, the Artemis generation, and also advantage mankind for years to come.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates completed comprehensive analytical along with ground teams, including the modification of the SpaceX Dragon space probe to accommodate an additional workers member in the unlikely event of an emergency situation return, and also leveraged the workers's different ability and instruction to make certain continuous risk-free as well as efficient operations for present and potential crews.In Houston, Cassada served as a pill communicator in NASA's Goal Control Center as well as assistant to the main of the Astronaut Workplace for spaceport station operations. As a physicist and also test pilot, Cassada also contributed to the growth of NASA's Commercial Staff Program and also Orion spacecraft and exemplified the Astronaut Office in technological as well as operational evaluations of medical practices like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually played a considerable role in NASA's deliverance of reliable and also affordable human transport to and also coming from the spaceport station," stated Standard Knight, director of trip procedures at NASA Johnson. "Via his dedication and also dedication to individual spaceflight expedition, Josh's work will definitely continue to push our company ahead on our experience back to the Moon, and also beyond. We will miss him as well as are delighted to observe what his upcoming quest entails.".As he transitions coming from government service, Cassada will certainly come back to the economic sector, dealing with remarkably reduced light detection modern technologies along with broad and surfacing applications in numerous locations, including quantum systems and processing, distant noticing, long-range interaction, semiconductor manufacturing, as well as health care imaging." I am actually incredibly grateful for my a lot of options right here at NASA," Cassada pointed out, "and especially to have offered alongside a number of the most fantastic people both on as well as off our earth, achieving factors that are actually just achievable when our team work and also innovate with each other as a crew. As humans, our team look into. And each scientific journey, whether in a lab in the world or even precede, needs tenacity to explore and also develop society. I am exceptionally privileged to have been surrounded by explorers in the course of my whole entire profession until now as well as moving forward. An expedition may seem challenging, however it is actually a lot much less thus when you're ready and along with the right crewmates.".Prior to his option by NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Training class, Cassada got his doctoral in High Energy Bit Physics from the Educational Institution of Rochester, The Big Apple and was an USA Navy pilot, coach captain, test pilot, as well as teacher exam aviator. Throughout his job, Cassada has built up much more than 4,000 air travel hours in over 50 various airplane and also has been actually rewarded different armed forces as well as civilian honors.Cassada earned a degree coming from White Bear Pond Location Senior High School in Minnesota in 1991 as well as acquired his undergraduate's in Natural science in 1995 from Albion University in Michigan.Learn more concerning International Space Station research and also functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.