.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 agency all over numerous systems, including 157 times in space and also 3 spacewalks. Cassada additionally is a retired United States Navy leader and also marine pilot along with greater than 20 years of solution.Cassada worked as fly of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 objective as well as Trip 68 air travel engineer aboard the International Space Station, performing myriad servicing, contingency, and also upgrade activities inside the terminal while likewise bring about hundreds of practices as well as innovation demonstrations. His three spacewalks outside of the orbiting laboratory totaled greater than 21 hrs, properly installing a pair of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the place's electrical capacity. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, additionally assembled the structure for a potential IROSA installation and totally repaired a malfunctioning legacy sunlight variety." I want to stretch my sincere gratefulness to Josh for his commitment and also service to human room exploration," said NASA Johnson Space Facility Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's additions and also success to the development of scientific research and also exploration are going to motivate the next generation of explorers, the Artemis creation, as well as advantage mankind for decades to follow.".Throughout Exploration 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates accomplished substantial analytic along with ground staffs, featuring the adjustment of the SpaceX Monster space probe to suit an extra crew participant in the unlikely event of an emergency situation return, and also leveraged the staff's various skill sets as well as instruction to make certain continuing secure and also reliable operations for present and also future workers.In Houston, Cassada functioned as a capsule communicator in NASA's Goal Control Facility and also associate to the principal of the Astronaut Office for space station functions. As a scientist and also examination captain, Cassada additionally added to the progression of NASA's Industrial Staff Program and also Orion space probe and exemplified the Rocketeer Office in specialized and also working customer reviews of scientific experiments like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has participated in a considerable duty in NASA's delivery of reliable and cost-efficient individual transit to and coming from the space station," said Rule Knight, supervisor of tour operations at NASA Johnson. "Through his commitment and also dedication to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's work will continue to push us forward on our experience back to the Moon, and past. Our experts are going to overlook him and also are actually excited to view what his following journey includes.".As he transitions coming from government service, Cassada will definitely go back to the economic sector, working on incredibly low lighting detection modern technologies with wide and also surfacing applications in several regions, consisting of quantum networks as well as processing, distant sensing, long-range interaction, semiconductor manufacturing, and also health care imaging." I am astonishingly grateful for my several opportunities listed below at NASA," Cassada said, "and particularly to have actually provided together with several of the best amazing individuals both on as well as off our world, performing traits that are only feasible when our company operate and also innovate together as a team. As humans, we explore. As well as each clinical adventure, whether in a lab on Earth or even precede, needs nerve to explore and also develop culture. I am actually surprisingly lucky to have been encompassed by travelers throughout my whole profession thus far as well as going ahead. An exploration might seem to be intimidating, however it's a lot much less so when you are actually prepared and also with the best crewmates.".Before his selection by NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Lesson, Cassada earned his doctoral in High Electricity Bit Natural Science from the Educational Institution of Rochester, Nyc and was actually a united state Naval force fly, teacher captain, exam aviator, as well as coach exam captain. Throughout his career, Cassada has actually accumulated greater than 4,000 flight hours in over 50 different airplane and also has been actually rewarded various army and private honors.Cassada graduated from White Bear Lake Region Senior High School in Minnesota in 1991 as well as obtained his bachelor's in Natural science in 1995 from Albion College in Michigan.Learn more about International Spaceport station research as well as functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.