.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 company throughout several courses, featuring 157 days in space and 3 spacewalks. Cassada additionally is a retired United States Naval force leader as well as marine aviator with greater than 20 years of service.Cassada served as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 objective and Expedition 68 tour designer aboard the International Spaceport station, executing myriad maintenance, emergency, and upgrade tasks inside the station while additionally contributing to dozens experiments and also modern technology manifestations. His three spacewalks beyond the orbiting research laboratory totted greater than 21 hours, properly putting up a pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the place's electric ability. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, additionally put together the facilities for a potential IROSA installment and completely repaired a malfunctioning tradition solar range." I want to extend my sincere gratefulness to Josh for his commitment and also company to individual space exploration," said NASA Johnson Area Center Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's additions as well as success to the advancement of science and also exploration will certainly inspire the newest generation of travelers, the Artemis generation, and also perk humankind for many years ahead.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada and his crewmates accomplished comprehensive analytical along with ground teams, featuring the adjustment of the SpaceX Dragon space probe to suit an additional staff member in the unlikely event of an emergency profits, and leveraged the team's numerous capability and instruction to make sure continuing safe and also successful functions for existing and also future teams.In Houston, Cassada acted as a capsule communicator in NASA's Mission Management Center as well as aide to the chief of the Rocketeer Office for space station procedures. As a scientist and also exam pilot, Cassada likewise brought about the development of NASA's Commercial Workers Plan and also Orion space probe as well as stood for the Rocketeer Workplace in technological and operational testimonials of scientific experiments such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually participated in a substantial role in NASA's delivery of trustworthy as well as cost-efficient individual transit to and also coming from the space station," said Standard Knight, supervisor of trip functions at NASA Johnson. "Through his devotion and dedication to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's work will certainly remain to push our company forward on our trip back to the Moon, as well as beyond. Our team are going to skip him and are excited to find what his next trip requires.".As he transitions coming from authorities solution, Cassada is going to come back to the economic sector, dealing with exceptionally low illumination detection innovations along with vast and arising treatments in several regions, featuring quantum networks and computing, remote control noticing, long-range communication, semiconductor production, and health care imaging." I am exceptionally thankful for my several possibilities right here at NASA," Cassada claimed, "and specifically to have served alongside a number of the absolute most outstanding individuals each on and off our earth, completing traits that are actually only possible when our company work and innovate together as a group. As people, our company discover. As well as each scientific experience, whether in a laboratory in the world or even in space, calls for guts to look into and advance community. I am extremely blessed to have actually been bordered by travelers throughout my entire job so far as well as moving forward. A trip might seem to be daunting, but it's a lot less so when you are actually equipped as well as with the right crewmates.".Just before his choice through NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Course, Cassada got his doctoral in High Electricity Particle Physics coming from the University of Rochester, New York City as well as was actually an USA Navy pilot, coach fly, examination aviator, and trainer exam captain. Throughout his career, Cassada has actually collected much more than 4,000 tour hours in over 50 various airplane and also has been actually granted numerous armed forces as well as civilian awards.Cassada earned a degree coming from White Bear Pond Location High School in Minnesota in 1991 and received his bachelor's in Physics in 1995 coming from Albion College in Michigan.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station analysis and operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Room Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.