.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Relinquish NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of company to the agency across multiple systems, consisting of 157 times in space as well as 3 spacewalks. Cassada also is actually a retired United States Navy leader and marine aviator along with greater than 20 years of service.Cassada served as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 goal as well as Trip 68 trip engineer aboard the International Spaceport station, executing myriad maintenance, contingency, and also upgrade tasks inside the station while likewise supporting numerous experiments and also technology demonstrations. His three spacewalks outside of the orbiting research laboratory totted much more than 21 hrs, properly mounting a pair of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the station's electrical ability. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, additionally put together the infrastructure for a potential IROSA setup as well as totally rejuvenated a malfunctioning tradition solar range." I wish to prolong my earnest appreciation to Josh for his dedication as well as solution to individual area exploration," claimed NASA Johnson Room Center Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's additions and also achievements to the improvement of science as well as exploration will certainly influence the next generation of explorers, the Artemis production, and perk mankind for decades to follow.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates finished comprehensive analytic with ground teams, featuring the alteration of the SpaceX Monster space probe to accommodate an extra crew member in case of an emergency return, as well as leveraged the crew's a variety of skill sets as well as instruction to make sure continuing safe as well as efficient functions for present as well as potential crews.In Houston, Cassada acted as a capsule communicator in NASA's Objective Command Center as well as associate to the principal of the Astronaut Office for space station functions. As a physicist and also exam captain, Cassada additionally added to the development of NASA's Office Workers Plan as well as Orion space capsule as well as worked with the Rocketeer Office in technical as well as working reviews of medical experiments including the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and also Cold Weather Atom Lab." Josh has actually participated in a significant role in NASA's delivery of trustworthy and affordable human transportation to as well as from the spaceport station," pointed out Norm Knight, supervisor of flight functions at NASA Johnson. "With his commitment and also commitment to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's work will certainly continue to drive our company forward on our quest back to the Moon, as well as past. We will miss him as well as are excited to observe what his next adventure entails.".As he transitions from federal government solution, Cassada will definitely come back to the economic sector, focusing on exceptionally reduced illumination diagnosis innovations with broad and also surfacing treatments in various areas, consisting of quantum systems as well as processing, remote noticing, long-range communication, semiconductor production, and clinical imaging." I am extremely happy for my several options below at NASA," Cassada said, "as well as especially to have actually offered alongside several of the best fantastic individuals both on and also off our world, achieving things that are simply achievable when we function as well as innovate all together as a team. As people, our experts look into. And each medical adventure, whether in a lab on Earth or even precede, needs tenacity to discover and develop society. I am actually unbelievably lucky to have actually been actually encompassed by travelers during my whole entire profession thus far and going forward. A trip might appear overwhelming, yet it is actually a whole lot less thus when you're prepared and also along with the right crewmates.".Just before his collection by NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Class, Cassada gained his doctoral in High Power Bit Physics from the College of Rochester, The Big Apple and also was actually an USA Naval force pilot, coach fly, exam pilot, as well as teacher exam fly. Throughout his career, Cassada has built up much more than 4,000 trip hrs in over fifty various airplane and has actually been actually granted numerous military and also noncombatant awards.Cassada finished from White Bear Pond Place Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 and also acquired his undergraduate's in Natural science in 1995 coming from Albion University in Michigan.Find out more about International Spaceport station research study as well as operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.