.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA astronaut Josh Cassada resigned Oct. 1, after 11 years of company to the company all over numerous plans, consisting of 157 days precede and also three spacewalks. Cassada additionally is a retired USA Navy leader and also marine aviator with greater than 20 years of service.Cassada worked as aviator of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 purpose and Trip 68 tour developer aboard the International Space Station, executing myriad maintenance, backup, and also upgrade tasks inside the terminal while additionally adding to manies practices and modern technology demonstrations. His three spacewalks away from the orbiting research laboratory completed much more than 21 hours, efficiently mounting a set of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the place's electric capability. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, likewise put together the commercial infrastructure for a potential IROSA installation and also totally rejuvenated a malfunctioning tradition solar energy selection." I intend to extend my genuine Thanksgiving to Josh for his dedication and also company to individual area expedition," stated NASA Johnson Room Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments and also success to the innovation of science and also expedition are going to motivate the newest generation of explorers, the Artemis creation, and also advantage humankind for many years to follow.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates completed significant problem-solving with ground crews, featuring the alteration of the SpaceX Monster space capsule to accommodate an additional crew member in the event of an unexpected emergency come back, as well as leveraged the staff's several capability and also instruction to guarantee ongoing safe and effective procedures for existing and future staffs.In Houston, Cassada served as a capsule communicator in NASA's Purpose Management Center as well as associate to the main of the Astronaut Office for space station procedures. As a physicist as well as examination fly, Cassada also brought about the growth of NASA's Commercial Staff System and Orion space capsule and worked with the Rocketeer Office in technological and also functional reviews of clinical experiments including the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Atom Laboratory." Josh has participated in a substantial job in NASA's delivery of reputable and economical individual transport to as well as coming from the space station," said Norm Knight, supervisor of air travel operations at NASA Johnson. "Via his dedication and commitment to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's work will remain to drive our team ahead on our quest back to the Moon, and past. Our team are going to skip him and are actually excited to view what his upcoming trip requires.".As he transitions from federal government solution, Cassada will definitely come back to the economic sector, servicing incredibly low light diagnosis technologies along with wide and arising treatments in several areas, featuring quantum systems as well as computing, distant noticing, long-range interaction, semiconductor manufacturing, and health care image resolution." I am actually very thankful for my several possibilities below at NASA," Cassada stated, "as well as especially to have actually offered alongside a number of the absolute most outstanding folks both on and also off our planet, performing traits that are just possible when we work and introduce all together as a crew. As human beings, we check out. And each scientific experience, whether in a lab in the world or in space, demands guts to explore and develop community. I am extremely lucky to have been actually bordered through travelers during the course of my whole career up until now as well as going forward. A trip may seem daunting, yet it's a great deal less so when you are actually ready and also along with the ideal crewmates.".Just before his choice through NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Training class, Cassada earned his doctoral in High Electricity Particle Physics from the University of Rochester, The Big Apple as well as was a united state Navy aviator, instructor pilot, test aviator, and also coach test fly. Throughout his job, Cassada has actually collected more than 4,000 trip hours in over 50 different airplane and has been actually awarded a variety of military and also noncombatant honors.Cassada got a degree from White Bear Lake Place Senior High School in Minnesota in 1991 as well as got his bachelor's in Natural science in 1995 coming from Albion College in Michigan.Discover more about International Spaceport station analysis and functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.