.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 company throughout several programs, featuring 157 times in space as well as 3 spacewalks. Cassada additionally is actually a retired USA Navy leader and naval flyer with more than 20 years of service.Cassada acted as aviator of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 purpose and also Exploration 68 flight developer aboard the International Spaceport station, performing myriad routine maintenance, backup, and upgrade activities inside the station while also bring about hundreds of practices as well as modern technology manifestations. His three spacewalks away from the orbiting laboratory completed greater than 21 hrs, effectively setting up a pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to enhance the place's electrical capacity. Cassada, together with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, also assembled the framework for a future IROSA installment and fully restored a malfunctioning legacy photo voltaic variety." I desire to prolong my honest appreciation to Josh for his commitment and also service to human space exploration," pointed out NASA Johnson Room Center Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's additions and also achievements to the advancement of science and expedition will certainly inspire the newest generation of explorers, the Artemis creation, as well as advantage mankind for many years to follow.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada and also his crewmates completed extensive analytical along with ground crews, including the alteration of the SpaceX Monster space capsule to suit an extra workers member in the event of an unexpected emergency come back, and leveraged the staff's several capability and training to ensure continued risk-free and also efficient operations for current and future crews.In Houston, Cassada functioned as a pill communicator in NASA's Purpose Management Center and also associate to the main of the Astronaut Office for space station operations. As a physicist as well as exam fly, Cassada likewise helped in the growth of NASA's Business Workers Program and Orion spacecraft as well as stood for the Astronaut Workplace in technological and operational customer reviews of scientific experiments such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Weather Atom Lab." Josh has played a substantial part in NASA's deliverance of trusted and economical individual transport to and also coming from the space station," stated Standard Knight, director of flight operations at NASA Johnson. "With his dedication and dedication to human spaceflight expedition, Josh's job will definitely remain to drive our company onward on our journey back to the Moon, as well as beyond. Our company will certainly miss him and also are thrilled to find what his upcoming quest requires.".As he transitions from authorities solution, Cassada will definitely go back to the private sector, working with exceptionally reduced illumination discovery technologies with wide as well as arising requests in a variety of areas, featuring quantum networks and computing, remote noticing, long-range interaction, semiconductor production, and health care imaging." I am incredibly grateful for my a lot of options listed below at NASA," Cassada said, "and also specifically to have provided along with some of the absolute most fantastic individuals each on as well as off our planet, achieving traits that are actually simply feasible when our company function as well as innovate all together as a staff. As humans, our team look into. And each scientific journey, whether in a laboratory on Earth or in space, requires guts to discover as well as develop society. I am actually extremely lucky to have actually been actually surrounded through explorers during my whole entire career up until now and also going forward. An expedition might appear intimidating, yet it's a whole lot much less so when you're equipped and along with the correct crewmates.".Before his choice through NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Course, Cassada made his doctoral in High Energy Bit Natural Science coming from the College of Rochester, Nyc as well as was actually an USA Navy captain, instructor captain, exam pilot, as well as trainer test fly. Throughout his profession, Cassada has actually gathered much more than 4,000 tour hours in over fifty different plane and also has actually been granted different military and also civilian honors.Cassada earned a degree from White Bear Lake Area Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 and also obtained his bachelor's in Natural science in 1995 coming from Albion University in Michigan.Discover more regarding International Space Station research study and also functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.