.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 throughout numerous systems, including 157 times in space and three spacewalks. Cassada also is actually a retired United States Navy captain as well as marine aviator along with much more than two decades of service.Cassada worked as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 goal and also Exploration 68 air travel designer aboard the International Space Station, executing myriad servicing, emergency, as well as upgrade tasks inside the terminal while additionally supporting hundreds of practices and modern technology manifestations. His 3 spacewalks away from the orbiting lab totted more than 21 hours, successfully putting in a pair of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to boost the place's electrical capacity. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, additionally set up the commercial infrastructure for a potential IROSA installment as well as fully rejuvenated a malfunctioning tradition solar range." I wish to prolong my earnest gratefulness to Josh for his dedication and service to individual room expedition," claimed NASA Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's additions as well as success to the development of science and exploration will certainly inspire the next generation of explorers, the Artemis generation, and perk humankind for years ahead.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates accomplished considerable problem-solving along with ground crews, featuring the alteration of the SpaceX Monster spacecraft to accommodate an extra workers member in case of an emergency come back, and also leveraged the crew's various skill sets and also instruction to make sure continuing safe and helpful functions for current and also potential workers.In Houston, Cassada served as a capsule communicator in NASA's Purpose Control Facility as well as aide to the chief of the Astronaut Office for spaceport station functions. As a physicist and examination fly, Cassada likewise supported the growth of NASA's Industrial Team System as well as Orion spacecraft and also embodied the Astronaut Office in specialized as well as operational reviews of scientific experiments like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and also Cold Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually participated in a significant part in NASA's delivery of dependable as well as affordable human transit to as well as coming from the spaceport station," pointed out Norm Knight, director of flight operations at NASA Johnson. "With his commitment and also dedication to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's job will definitely remain to press our team ahead on our trip back to the Moon, as well as past. Our team will miss him and also are excited to see what his following trip involves.".As he transitions from federal government company, Cassada will return to the economic sector, dealing with extremely low light discovery modern technologies along with extensive and also arising requests in numerous places, consisting of quantum networks as well as processing, remote control noticing, long-range interaction, semiconductor production, and clinical image resolution." I am actually astonishingly grateful for my several options right here at NASA," Cassada pointed out, "and especially to have actually provided alongside a number of the best impressive people each on as well as off our earth, performing points that are simply achievable when our experts function as well as innovate with each other as a group. As human beings, our company check out. And each scientific experience, whether in a lab in the world or in space, requires tenacity to explore and also advance community. I am exceptionally blessed to have actually been encompassed by explorers during my whole job so far and also going forward. An exploration may appear complicated, however it is actually a great deal much less thus when you're equipped as well as along with the best crewmates.".Prior to his choice through NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Course, Cassada made his doctoral in High Electricity Bit Physics coming from the Educational Institution of Rochester, New York City and also was actually a united state Navy captain, teacher captain, exam aviator, and trainer test captain. Throughout his career, Cassada has built up more than 4,000 tour hrs in over fifty various plane as well as has been granted different military and private honors.Cassada earned a degree from White Bear Lake Place Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 and acquired his undergraduate's in Natural science in 1995 coming from Albion College in Michigan.Find out more concerning International Space Station research study and operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.