.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Relinquish NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of service to the company all over several programs, featuring 157 times in space and three spacewalks. Cassada additionally is a retired USA Navy leader and naval pilot with more than 20 years of company.Cassada served as fly of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission and Trip 68 trip developer aboard the International Spaceport station, performing myriad maintenance, emergency, and upgrade activities inside the terminal while likewise adding to thousands of practices as well as innovation manifestations. His three spacewalks beyond the orbiting lab completed more than 21 hours, efficiently putting in a pair of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the station's electrical ability. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, additionally set up the facilities for a future IROSA installation as well as totally brought back a malfunctioning legacy photo voltaic collection." I wish to expand my earnest thankfulness to Josh for his commitment and company to individual area exploration," said NASA Johnson Area Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's additions and also success to the development of scientific research and exploration will inspire the future generation of travelers, the Artemis creation, and advantage humanity for many years to come.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada and his crewmates accomplished extensive analytic with ground teams, consisting of the customization of the SpaceX Monster spacecraft to accommodate an extra crew participant in the event of an urgent return, as well as leveraged the team's several skill sets and training to make certain continued secure as well as reliable functions for present and potential workers.In Houston, Cassada acted as a pill communicator in NASA's Purpose Command Facility and aide to the principal of the Rocketeer Office for space station procedures. As a physicist and examination fly, Cassada additionally contributed to the advancement of NASA's Commercial Crew System and also Orion space capsule and also stood for the Astronaut Office in specialized and also operational assessments of clinical experiments such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has participated in a notable job in NASA's deliverance of trustworthy as well as cost-efficient individual transport to and also coming from the spaceport station," said Standard Knight, director of trip functions at NASA Johnson. "By means of his dedication as well as commitment to individual spaceflight expedition, Josh's job are going to remain to push our company onward on our adventure back to the Moon, as well as beyond. Our experts will definitely miss him and are excited to find what his following experience requires.".As he transitions from federal government solution, Cassada is going to come back to the economic sector, focusing on exceptionally reduced illumination discovery innovations with vast and also developing treatments in a variety of areas, consisting of quantum networks as well as processing, distant picking up, long-range communication, semiconductor production, and also health care imaging." I am actually extremely grateful for my lots of opportunities here at NASA," Cassada mentioned, "and also particularly to have provided along with a few of the best incredible people each on and off our earth, performing things that are actually just achievable when our company operate as well as introduce all together as a group. As human beings, our experts check out. As well as each clinical adventure, whether in a laboratory in the world or even in space, demands tenacity to explore and also develop society. I am actually surprisingly blessed to have been actually bordered through travelers during the course of my whole entire occupation so far as well as going forward. An exploration might appear overwhelming, yet it is actually a lot much less so when you are actually well prepared and also with the best crewmates.".Just before his assortment by NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Class, Cassada gained his doctoral in High Power Fragment Physics from the University of Rochester, Nyc as well as was an U.S. Navy fly, coach pilot, exam captain, and coach examination fly. Throughout his profession, Cassada has actually accumulated much more than 4,000 flight hrs in over fifty different airplane and also has been actually rewarded several military as well as private awards.Cassada finished coming from White Bear Pond Place Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 as well as received his bachelor's in Natural science in 1995 coming from Albion College in Michigan.Find out more regarding International Space Station analysis and functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.