.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of service to the firm throughout multiple courses, including 157 days precede and 3 spacewalks. Cassada also is actually a retired USA Naval force leader as well as marine pilot with more than 20 years of service.Cassada acted as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 goal and also Trip 68 trip engineer aboard the International Spaceport station, carrying out myriad maintenance, contingency, as well as upgrade activities inside the terminal while additionally bring about thousands of experiments and modern technology manifestations. His 3 spacewalks beyond the orbiting laboratory totted more than 21 hours, efficiently mounting a pair of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to improve the station's power capability. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, also assembled the structure for a potential IROSA setup and also entirely repaired a malfunctioning heritage photovoltaic selection." I wish to stretch my honest thankfulness to Josh for his devotion and also service to individual space exploration," mentioned NASA Johnson Area Facility Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's additions and also achievements to the development of science and exploration will definitely inspire the next generation of explorers, the Artemis generation, and also perk mankind for years to follow.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates finished extensive problem-solving along with ground crews, consisting of the modification of the SpaceX Dragon space capsule to fit an extra crew member in the unlikely event of an urgent come back, as well as leveraged the team's different ability and also training to guarantee continuous safe and efficient procedures for current as well as future crews.In Houston, Cassada worked as a pill communicator in NASA's Goal Management Center and associate to the principal of the Rocketeer Workplace for space station functions. As a physicist and also examination captain, Cassada additionally added to the progression of NASA's Office Team Program and Orion spacecraft as well as worked with the Astronaut Office in technical as well as working assessments of scientific experiments like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually played a considerable part in NASA's delivery of reliable and also cost-effective individual transportation to as well as from the spaceport station," claimed Norm Knight, director of trip functions at NASA Johnson. "Through his dedication and devotion to individual spaceflight exploration, Josh's work are going to remain to push our team onward on our experience back to the Moon, and past. Our experts will certainly skip him and are actually thrilled to find what his next experience involves.".As he transitions coming from authorities solution, Cassada will certainly return to the private sector, servicing very low lighting discovery technologies along with broad and also emerging requests in different locations, consisting of quantum systems and also computing, remote picking up, long-range interaction, semiconductor production, as well as clinical imaging." I am actually very happy for my many options listed below at NASA," Cassada stated, "and especially to have actually provided alongside several of the most impressive people both on and also off our planet, achieving factors that are just possible when our team function as well as introduce with each other as a crew. As humans, our experts discover. As well as each clinical adventure, whether in a lab on Earth or precede, needs tenacity to look into as well as advance society. I am surprisingly fortunate to have been bordered by travelers throughout my entire profession up until now as well as going forward. An expedition may appear intimidating, but it is actually a lot much less so when you're well prepared and also along with the best crewmates.".Prior to his option by NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Lesson, Cassada earned his doctorate in High Power Bit Natural Science from the College of Rochester, New York as well as was actually an USA Navy fly, teacher captain, test captain, and teacher test fly. Throughout his occupation, Cassada has accumulated greater than 4,000 trip hours in over fifty various aircraft and also has actually been actually granted various army and private honors.Cassada finished from White Bear Pond Place Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 and obtained his bachelor's in Natural science in 1995 from Albion University in Michigan.Find out more about International Space Station investigation and operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.