.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 company throughout various programs, including 157 times in space and three spacewalks. Cassada likewise is actually a retired USA Navy leader and also naval flyer with greater than 20 years of solution.Cassada acted as fly of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 goal and Expedition 68 trip engineer aboard the International Space Station, implementing myriad upkeep, backup, as well as upgrade activities inside the terminal while additionally bring about manies experiments and innovation demonstrations. His 3 spacewalks outside of the orbiting lab totted greater than 21 hrs, efficiently setting up a set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to boost the station's electrical capability. Cassada, together with crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, likewise set up the facilities for a potential IROSA installment and also totally rejuvenated a malfunctioning heritage sun collection." I would like to prolong my earnest Thanksgiving to Josh for his dedication and service to individual space expedition," said NASA Johnson Area Center Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments as well as success to the advancement of science and also expedition will influence the newest generation of explorers, the Artemis production, as well as advantage humankind for decades to find.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates finished significant analytic along with ground teams, consisting of the alteration of the SpaceX Monster space capsule to accommodate an added team participant in case of an emergency profits, and leveraged the staff's different skill sets and also instruction to ensure continuous risk-free and reliable operations for present and potential teams.In Houston, Cassada acted as a pill communicator in NASA's Goal Control Center as well as aide to the principal of the Astronaut Workplace for space station procedures. As a physicist and test aviator, Cassada also contributed to the development of NASA's Industrial Workers Program as well as Orion space capsule as well as embodied the Rocketeer Workplace in specialized and operational reviews of clinical experiments such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and also Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has played a notable part in NASA's saving of reputable and affordable human transportation to and also from the spaceport station," said Standard Knight, director of flight procedures at NASA Johnson. "Through his devotion as well as dedication to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's work are going to remain to drive our company onward on our adventure back to the Moon, and past. Our company will definitely skip him and are excited to observe what his next quest calls for.".As he transitions from authorities service, Cassada is going to come back to the private sector, working on exceptionally low illumination diagnosis technologies along with extensive and emerging uses in several areas, consisting of quantum systems and computer, distant picking up, long-range communication, semiconductor production, and also health care image resolution." I am exceptionally thankful for my lots of possibilities below at NASA," Cassada mentioned, "and also particularly to have served along with some of the most fantastic individuals each on as well as off our world, completing points that are actually simply achievable when our team operate and innovate all together as a group. As humans, we discover. And each scientific adventure, whether in a lab in the world or even precede, requires guts to look into as well as develop culture. I am actually very privileged to have been encompassed through travelers throughout my whole profession up until now and also moving forward. An expedition may seem to be intimidating, yet it is actually a whole lot much less thus when you're equipped as well as with the appropriate crewmates.".Before his collection by NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Lesson, Cassada gained his doctoral in High Electricity Bit Physics coming from the Educational Institution of Rochester, The Big Apple as well as was actually an U.S. Naval force captain, teacher pilot, test captain, and teacher examination captain. Throughout his profession, Cassada has gathered more than 4,000 trip hours in over 50 different airplane and has actually been granted a variety of armed forces and civilian awards.Cassada got a degree coming from White Bear Pond Area Senior High School in Minnesota in 1991 and got his undergraduate's in Natural science in 1995 from Albion College in Michigan.Discover more about International Spaceport station research as well as functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.