.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Relinquish NASA.NASA astronaut Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of solution to the firm all over various courses, featuring 157 days precede and also 3 spacewalks. Cassada additionally is a retired USA Naval force captain and marine flyer with greater than two decades of company.Cassada served as aviator of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 objective as well as Trip 68 tour designer aboard the International Space Station, executing myriad upkeep, backup, as well as upgrade tasks inside the terminal while also resulting in dozens experiments and also technology manifestations. His 3 spacewalks away from the orbiting lab totaled greater than 21 hrs, properly setting up a set of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the place's electrical capacity. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, likewise constructed the facilities for a future IROSA setup as well as completely brought back a malfunctioning tradition sunlight range." I would like to stretch my earnest thankfulness to Josh for his commitment and also service to individual area expedition," stated NASA Johnson Space Facility Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's additions and also accomplishments to the innovation of science as well as exploration are going to encourage the next generation of explorers, the Artemis generation, as well as perk humanity for years to follow.".Throughout Exploration 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates finished significant analytic along with ground staffs, featuring the adjustment of the SpaceX Monster spacecraft to fit an extra workers participant in case of an unexpected emergency come back, and leveraged the team's different capability and instruction to make sure continuing risk-free and successful operations for existing as well as potential teams.In Houston, Cassada worked as a capsule communicator in NASA's Purpose Control Center and also aide to the main of the Rocketeer Office for spaceport station operations. As a scientist and test aviator, Cassada additionally added to the growth of NASA's Business Team Course and Orion space capsule and exemplified the Astronaut Office in technological and working testimonials of clinical practices including the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Atom Lab." Josh has actually played a substantial role in NASA's saving of reputable as well as cost-effective individual transportation to and also coming from the spaceport station," stated Standard Knight, supervisor of tour functions at NASA Johnson. "By means of his devotion as well as dedication to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's job will continue to push our team onward on our experience back to the Moon, and also beyond. We will miss him and also are actually thrilled to view what his upcoming adventure includes.".As he transitions from government solution, Cassada is going to return to the economic sector, servicing exceptionally reduced lighting diagnosis innovations with vast and developing requests in a variety of areas, consisting of quantum systems and also processing, distant noticing, long-range interaction, semiconductor production, as well as health care imaging." I am astonishingly thankful for my lots of options below at NASA," Cassada said, "and specifically to have actually provided along with a number of one of the most impressive individuals each on and also off our world, completing traits that are simply possible when our company operate and introduce together as a crew. As people, our experts discover. And each clinical journey, whether in a laboratory on Earth or even in space, calls for tenacity to discover and also advance culture. I am actually incredibly lucky to have actually been actually encompassed through travelers throughout my whole entire job so far and going ahead. An expedition may seem to be overwhelming, yet it is actually a whole lot less therefore when you are actually equipped and along with the appropriate crewmates.".Just before his variety by NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Lesson, Cassada earned his doctoral in High Electricity Fragment Physics coming from the College of Rochester, New York City as well as was actually a united state Naval force fly, coach captain, test captain, and teacher exam pilot. Throughout his career, Cassada has accumulated greater than 4,000 air travel hours in over fifty different plane as well as has been awarded several army and civilian awards.Cassada earned a degree from White Bear Lake Area Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 and also acquired his bachelor's in Physics in 1995 coming from Albion College in Michigan.Find out more about International Space Station research study and functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.