.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA astronaut Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of solution to the organization around numerous programs, consisting of 157 times in space and also three spacewalks. Cassada additionally is actually a retired USA Navy leader and also naval flyer along with much more than two decades of company.Cassada functioned as aviator of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 purpose and Expedition 68 trip engineer aboard the International Spaceport station, carrying out myriad servicing, backup, and upgrade activities inside the terminal while also supporting hundreds of practices and also innovation demonstrations. His 3 spacewalks beyond the orbiting laboratory completed greater than 21 hours, efficiently setting up a pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to enhance the place's electrical capacity. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, likewise constructed the infrastructure for a potential IROSA installation as well as entirely repaired a malfunctioning heritage solar selection." I wish to extend my honest Thanksgiving to Josh for his devotion as well as company to individual room exploration," claimed NASA Johnson Area Center Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions and also accomplishments to the development of scientific research and also exploration will certainly influence the next generation of explorers, the Artemis production, as well as advantage mankind for years to come.".Throughout Exploration 68, Cassada and his crewmates completed significant problem-solving along with ground crews, featuring the alteration of the SpaceX Dragon space capsule to suit an added workers member in the unlikely event of an emergency profits, as well as leveraged the crew's various skill sets and instruction to make sure ongoing safe and successful functions for existing as well as potential workers.In Houston, Cassada acted as a pill communicator in NASA's Goal Control Facility and also aide to the chief of the Rocketeer Office for spaceport station procedures. As a physicist and exam fly, Cassada also brought about the progression of NASA's Commercial Staff Plan as well as Orion space probe and stood for the Astronaut Office in specialized as well as operational testimonials of clinical practices including the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually played a considerable job in NASA's deliverance of trustworthy and cost-efficient human transit to and from the space station," pointed out Norm Knight, director of tour procedures at NASA Johnson. "Through his dedication and also commitment to human spaceflight expedition, Josh's work are going to remain to drive our team onward on our experience back to the Moon, as well as beyond. We will certainly skip him as well as are actually thrilled to observe what his following experience necessitates.".As he transitions from authorities solution, Cassada is going to come back to the economic sector, working with remarkably low lighting discovery innovations with extensive and arising applications in numerous regions, including quantum systems as well as computer, distant picking up, long-range communication, semiconductor production, as well as health care image resolution." I am exceptionally thankful for my a lot of options listed below at NASA," Cassada stated, "and also particularly to have actually offered along with a few of the absolute most remarkable people each on as well as off our planet, performing traits that are actually just feasible when our company function and also introduce with each other as a staff. As humans, our company discover. And also each scientific journey, whether in a laboratory on Earth or even precede, demands guts to discover and advance culture. I am actually surprisingly blessed to have been encompassed by travelers in the course of my whole entire occupation until now and also going forward. An exploration might seem to be overwhelming, but it is actually a whole lot less thus when you're prepared as well as along with the correct crewmates.".Just before his option by NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Class, Cassada earned his doctorate in High Energy Bit Natural Science from the University of Rochester, New York City and also was an U.S. Naval force aviator, instructor fly, test pilot, and trainer examination fly. Throughout his profession, Cassada has built up more than 4,000 flight hours in over fifty various airplane and has actually been granted numerous armed forces and noncombatant honors.Cassada finished coming from White Bear Pond Region Senior High School in Minnesota in 1991 as well as got his bachelor's in Natural science in 1995 from Albion University in Michigan.Find out more concerning International Space Station research study as well as operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.