.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 agency throughout numerous courses, including 157 times precede as well as three spacewalks. Cassada additionally is a retired USA Navy leader and marine aviator along with much more than twenty years of company.Cassada worked as fly of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission and also Expedition 68 tour engineer aboard the International Space Station, implementing myriad servicing, backup, and also upgrade tasks inside the station while additionally supporting manies experiments and also innovation demonstrations. His 3 spacewalks away from the orbiting lab totted much more than 21 hours, effectively putting in a pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to boost the place's electric capacity. Cassada, together with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, likewise constructed the structure for a future IROSA installation as well as totally recovered a malfunctioning tradition solar variety." I desire to prolong my sincere thankfulness to Josh for his devotion as well as solution to individual space exploration," claimed NASA Johnson Room Facility Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions as well as achievements to the advancement of science and also expedition will motivate the next generation of explorers, the Artemis creation, and perk humanity for many years to follow.".Throughout Exploration 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates finished comprehensive problem-solving along with ground crews, featuring the alteration of the SpaceX Monster spacecraft to accommodate an added staff member in the unlikely event of an emergency situation profits, as well as leveraged the team's a variety of skill sets and also training to make sure ongoing secure and successful operations for present and future workers.In Houston, Cassada acted as a capsule communicator in NASA's Purpose Control Facility as well as assistant to the chief of the Astronaut Workplace for space station functions. As a physicist and test aviator, Cassada additionally brought about the advancement of NASA's Commercial Staff Program as well as Orion space capsule as well as worked with the Rocketeer Office in technological and working assessments of medical practices such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually participated in a significant part in NASA's delivery of reputable and also economical individual transportation to as well as coming from the space station," mentioned Rule Knight, supervisor of tour procedures at NASA Johnson. "With his devotion and devotion to individual spaceflight exploration, Josh's work will definitely remain to press our team ahead on our adventure back to the Moon, and also past. Our team will certainly miss him and also are actually excited to observe what his following adventure requires.".As he transitions coming from federal government service, Cassada is going to come back to the economic sector, focusing on very low illumination discovery innovations along with vast as well as emerging treatments in numerous locations, consisting of quantum systems as well as computer, remote control noticing, long-range interaction, semiconductor manufacturing, as well as health care imaging." I am exceptionally grateful for my many chances below at NASA," Cassada mentioned, "as well as particularly to have offered along with some of the most amazing individuals both on and off our planet, completing things that are actually merely achievable when our team work and also innovate together as a crew. As humans, we check out. And also each medical journey, whether in a lab on Earth or precede, requires courage to discover as well as develop culture. I am incredibly privileged to have been encompassed through travelers during the course of my entire profession so far as well as going ahead. An exploration may seem to be difficult, but it is actually a lot much less thus when you're ready and also along with the best crewmates.".Before his variety through NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Lesson, Cassada made his doctoral in High Power Particle Physics from the Educational Institution of Rochester, The Big Apple and was actually a united state Navy aviator, teacher captain, exam aviator, and also coach test aviator. Throughout his career, Cassada has actually gathered more than 4,000 tour hrs in over fifty different airplane and has been awarded several armed forces as well as noncombatant awards.Cassada earned a degree coming from White Bear Pond Place Senior High School in Minnesota in 1991 and obtained his bachelor's in Physics in 1995 from Albion College in Michigan.Find out more regarding International Spaceport station research study as well as functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.