.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA astronaut Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of company to the agency around multiple plans, consisting of 157 days in space and also 3 spacewalks. Cassada additionally is actually a retired United States Naval force captain as well as naval flyer with more than 20 years of company.Cassada acted as pilot of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission and Exploration 68 air travel developer aboard the International Space Station, carrying out myriad servicing, emergency, and upgrade activities inside the terminal while additionally adding to manies experiments and innovation demonstrations. His three spacewalks outside of the orbiting lab totaled greater than 21 hrs, efficiently putting in a pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to improve the station's power ability. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, also put together the facilities for a future IROSA setup and totally rejuvenated a malfunctioning heritage photovoltaic collection." I wish to expand my sincere gratefulness to Josh for his devotion and also solution to human room exploration," pointed out NASA Johnson Room Facility Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions and also accomplishments to the innovation of scientific research and expedition will influence the next generation of explorers, the Artemis production, and benefit mankind for decades ahead.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada and his crewmates accomplished extensive analytic along with ground teams, consisting of the modification of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to accommodate an added workers member in case of an emergency return, and also leveraged the workers's numerous capability and also training to make certain continued risk-free and also effective procedures for existing and future teams.In Houston, Cassada worked as a capsule communicator in NASA's Goal Command Facility and also assistant to the chief of the Astronaut Workplace for space station functions. As a physicist and also exam aviator, Cassada additionally supported the progression of NASA's Office Workers Plan and also Orion space capsule and also worked with the Astronaut Workplace in technical and working assessments of clinical experiments such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and also Cold Weather Atom Lab." Josh has actually participated in a considerable function in NASA's deliverance of trusted as well as cost-efficient individual transport to and also from the space station," mentioned Norm Knight, director of trip procedures at NASA Johnson. "With his devotion and commitment to human spaceflight expedition, Josh's work are going to remain to push our company ahead on our quest back to the Moon, and also past. Our team will definitely overlook him and are thrilled to observe what his following experience calls for.".As he transitions from federal government company, Cassada will definitely come back to the private sector, working on very low light discovery modern technologies along with broad and surfacing applications in a variety of areas, consisting of quantum systems and also computing, remote picking up, long-range interaction, semiconductor manufacturing, as well as health care image resolution." I am extremely grateful for my many options here at NASA," Cassada stated, "and also particularly to have actually offered along with some of one of the most amazing individuals each on and off our earth, achieving things that are only possible when our team work as well as introduce all together as a team. As human beings, we check out. And each clinical adventure, whether in a lab on Earth or even precede, demands tenacity to check out and develop community. I am unbelievably privileged to have been actually neighbored through explorers throughout my whole entire occupation until now as well as moving forward. An exploration may seem to be daunting, however it's a lot much less therefore when you are actually well prepared and with the appropriate crewmates.".Before his selection through NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Class, Cassada made his doctoral in High Power Bit Physics from the University of Rochester, New York City and also was a united state Navy pilot, teacher pilot, test pilot, as well as instructor examination pilot. Throughout his profession, Cassada has collected much more than 4,000 tour hours in over 50 various airplane and has actually been actually granted several army as well as private awards.Cassada got a degree from White Bear Pond Area High School in Minnesota in 1991 and also got his undergraduate's in Physics in 1995 coming from Albion College in Michigan.Discover more about International Space Station investigation and also functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.