.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA.NASA astronaut Josh Cassada resigned Oct. 1, after 11 years of service to the organization throughout a number of systems, consisting of 157 times precede and also 3 spacewalks. Cassada likewise is a retired USA Naval force leader and naval aviator along with greater than twenty years of service.Cassada worked as fly of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 purpose and also Expedition 68 air travel designer aboard the International Spaceport station, carrying out myriad maintenance, backup, as well as upgrade tasks inside the station while also adding to thousands of experiments and innovation demonstrations. His three spacewalks away from the orbiting research laboratory completed much more than 21 hours, efficiently putting in a pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to improve the station's electric ability. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, likewise assembled the commercial infrastructure for a future IROSA installment and also fully brought back a malfunctioning legacy sunlight collection." I intend to expand my honest Thanksgiving to Josh for his devotion as well as company to human space expedition," said NASA Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's additions and success to the development of scientific research and also exploration will certainly motivate the newest generation of explorers, the Artemis generation, and perk mankind for years to come.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada and also his crewmates accomplished significant analytic along with ground crews, consisting of the adjustment of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to accommodate an additional crew participant in case of an emergency situation profits, as well as leveraged the workers's several capability and also training to make certain continuing risk-free as well as reliable functions for existing and future teams.In Houston, Cassada worked as a capsule communicator in NASA's Mission Command Facility as well as associate to the principal of the Astronaut Office for spaceport station functions. As a scientist and test fly, Cassada additionally brought about the advancement of NASA's Industrial Crew Program and also Orion spacecraft as well as exemplified the Rocketeer Workplace in technological and operational customer reviews of clinical practices like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has participated in a notable job in NASA's deliverance of dependable as well as cost-efficient individual transit to and coming from the spaceport station," pointed out Standard Knight, supervisor of flight operations at NASA Johnson. "By means of his devotion as well as devotion to human spaceflight expedition, Josh's job are going to remain to press us forward on our quest back to the Moon, as well as beyond. Our company will certainly miss him and are thrilled to view what his next quest includes.".As he transitions coming from federal government solution, Cassada is going to return to the economic sector, servicing incredibly reduced light diagnosis modern technologies with broad and also surfacing applications in different regions, consisting of quantum networks and computer, distant picking up, long-range communication, semiconductor manufacturing, and clinical image resolution." I am exceptionally thankful for my several opportunities listed here at NASA," Cassada said, "and also especially to have served together with a few of the most amazing individuals each on and also off our planet, accomplishing things that are actually merely achievable when our team function and also introduce with each other as a group. As people, we check out. And each clinical adventure, whether in a laboratory on Earth or even precede, needs tenacity to look into as well as advance society. I am very fortunate to have been surrounded through explorers during my whole career thus far and moving forward. An exploration may seem overwhelming, but it is actually a whole lot less therefore when you are actually ready as well as along with the correct crewmates.".Prior to his assortment through NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Course, Cassada gained his doctoral in High Power Particle Physics coming from the University of Rochester, The Big Apple and was actually an USA Naval force pilot, teacher captain, exam pilot, as well as coach exam captain. Throughout his career, Cassada has actually built up greater than 4,000 trip hours in over 50 various aircraft and also has actually been actually rewarded various armed forces and also private awards.Cassada got a degree coming from White Bear Pond Place High School in Minnesota in 1991 and obtained his undergraduate's in Natural science in 1995 from Albion University in Michigan.Learn more about International Space Station investigation and operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.