.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA astronaut Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of service to the organization across various systems, featuring 157 times in space as well as three spacewalks. Cassada likewise is actually a retired USA Naval force leader and also marine flyer with more than two decades of solution.Cassada functioned as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 goal and also Expedition 68 flight designer aboard the International Space Station, implementing myriad maintenance, emergency, and upgrade activities inside the station while also helping in manies practices and also technology manifestations. His 3 spacewalks away from the orbiting laboratory completed greater than 21 hours, effectively putting up a set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to enhance the place's electrical capacity. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, likewise put together the facilities for a future IROSA installment and also entirely recovered a malfunctioning legacy sun variety." I intend to prolong my earnest appreciation to Josh for his dedication and also service to human room exploration," said NASA Johnson Area Facility Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions and also accomplishments to the innovation of science and also expedition are going to motivate the next generation of explorers, the Artemis generation, as well as perk humankind for years to find.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada and his crewmates completed substantial problem-solving along with ground crews, consisting of the alteration of the SpaceX Monster space capsule to suit an extra crew participant in the event of an emergency return, and also leveraged the crew's numerous capability and also instruction to make sure continuous risk-free and also successful operations for current and also potential staffs.In Houston, Cassada worked as a capsule communicator in NASA's Objective Control Facility as well as aide to the chief of the Astronaut Workplace for spaceport station procedures. As a scientist as well as examination aviator, Cassada also contributed to the development of NASA's Commercial Staff Course and Orion space capsule and also represented the Astronaut Workplace in technical as well as operational evaluations of medical experiments like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Atom Laboratory." Josh has played a considerable role in NASA's deliverance of trusted as well as cost-efficient individual transport to and coming from the spaceport station," pointed out Standard Knight, supervisor of tour functions at NASA Johnson. "By means of his commitment and dedication to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's job will definitely continue to push our team forward on our journey back to the Moon, and past. We are going to overlook him as well as are delighted to find what his upcoming adventure involves.".As he transitions from federal government company, Cassada will certainly return to the economic sector, focusing on incredibly low light discovery technologies with vast and also emerging requests in various regions, featuring quantum networks and processing, remote control noticing, long-range interaction, semiconductor manufacturing, and also clinical image resolution." I am actually unbelievably grateful for my many chances below at NASA," Cassada claimed, "and also especially to have served together with several of the absolute most incredible individuals both on as well as off our planet, completing things that are merely feasible when our experts work as well as introduce with each other as a crew. As human beings, our company check out. And also each scientific journey, whether in a laboratory in the world or in space, needs guts to look into and advance culture. I am astonishingly fortunate to have been neighbored by travelers in the course of my whole entire profession thus far and going ahead. A trip may seem to be intimidating, but it's a whole lot much less so when you're well prepared and along with the correct crewmates.".Before his option by NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Lesson, Cassada gained his doctoral in High Energy Bit Natural Science from the Educational Institution of Rochester, New York and also was actually an U.S. Naval force aviator, instructor pilot, exam aviator, and teacher exam captain. Throughout his occupation, Cassada has built up much more than 4,000 trip hrs in over 50 different aircraft and also has been actually granted different military as well as private honors.Cassada graduated coming from White Bear Pond Region Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 and also acquired his undergraduate's in Natural science in 1995 coming from Albion University in Michigan.Learn more about International Space Station research as well as functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.