.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Relinquish NASA.NASA astronaut Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of company to the company around several programs, including 157 times in space and 3 spacewalks. Cassada also is a retired USA Naval force leader as well as naval pilot along with much more than two decades of solution.Cassada worked as fly of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 objective as well as Trip 68 air travel developer aboard the International Spaceport station, executing myriad upkeep, emergency, and also upgrade tasks inside the terminal while additionally supporting dozens experiments as well as technology demonstrations. His three spacewalks outside of the orbiting lab amounted to greater than 21 hrs, efficiently putting up a set of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the place's power capability. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, also constructed the commercial infrastructure for a future IROSA installation and also completely brought back a malfunctioning tradition solar collection." I wish to stretch my genuine appreciation to Josh for his devotion and also company to individual room expedition," said NASA Johnson Space Facility Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's additions and also accomplishments to the development of scientific research as well as expedition will definitely encourage the future generation of travelers, the Artemis production, and also benefit humankind for years to follow.".Throughout Exploration 68, Cassada and his crewmates finished extensive analytical with ground teams, including the customization of the SpaceX Monster spacecraft to suit an added workers participant in the unlikely event of an unexpected emergency return, as well as leveraged the staff's several ability as well as instruction to guarantee continuous risk-free and effective procedures for present and future staffs.In Houston, Cassada served as a pill communicator in NASA's Mission Management Facility as well as assistant to the chief of the Rocketeer Office for space station procedures. As a scientist and test fly, Cassada additionally helped in the growth of NASA's Business Workers Plan and Orion spacecraft and exemplified the Astronaut Workplace in technological and operational customer reviews of clinical practices like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually participated in a significant duty in NASA's saving of trusted and cost-efficient individual transportation to and also coming from the space station," claimed Norm Knight, director of air travel operations at NASA Johnson. "With his commitment and devotion to individual spaceflight exploration, Josh's work will remain to push our company onward on our quest back to the Moon, as well as past. We will certainly skip him and are delighted to see what his upcoming trip includes.".As he transitions coming from federal government company, Cassada will certainly go back to the private sector, focusing on extremely low lighting diagnosis technologies along with vast as well as developing applications in a variety of regions, featuring quantum networks as well as computing, remote control sensing, long-range interaction, semiconductor production, and also medical imaging." I am unbelievably happy for my a lot of possibilities right here at NASA," Cassada said, "as well as especially to have actually provided together with some of one of the most remarkable folks each on and off our world, performing things that are actually simply possible when we work as well as introduce all together as a group. As people, our company discover. As well as each clinical adventure, whether in a laboratory in the world or in space, calls for guts to check out and also develop community. I am exceptionally fortunate to have been actually encompassed by explorers in the course of my whole entire profession up until now as well as going forward. A trip may appear difficult, yet it is actually a great deal less thus when you're equipped and also with the right crewmates.".Before his variety by NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Class, Cassada got his doctoral in High Electricity Particle Natural Science from the University of Rochester, Nyc and was actually a united state Navy fly, teacher aviator, test pilot, as well as coach exam captain. Throughout his career, Cassada has built up much more than 4,000 trip hrs in over fifty various plane and also has been actually rewarded different army and also noncombatant honors.Cassada earned a degree from White Bear Pond Region High School in Minnesota in 1991 and got his undergraduate's in Natural science in 1995 from Albion University in Michigan.Discover more concerning International Space Station study and also procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.