.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Relinquish NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada retired Oct. 1, after 11 years of solution to the company across several courses, including 157 days in space and 3 spacewalks. Cassada likewise is a retired United States Naval force leader and marine aviator along with greater than two decades of service.Cassada worked as aviator of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 goal and Expedition 68 flight engineer aboard the International Space Station, executing myriad upkeep, backup, and also upgrade activities inside the terminal while likewise helping in thousands of practices and modern technology demonstrations. His three spacewalks beyond the orbiting research laboratory amounted to greater than 21 hrs, successfully setting up a pair of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to boost the station's electrical capacity. Cassada, together with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, also set up the commercial infrastructure for a future IROSA setup as well as entirely brought back a malfunctioning legacy photovoltaic assortment." I wish to expand my honest thankfulness to Josh for his dedication and also solution to human room expedition," claimed NASA Johnson Area Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments as well as achievements to the development of scientific research and also exploration will inspire the next generation of travelers, the Artemis creation, and also advantage humankind for years to find.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada and also his crewmates finished substantial analytical along with ground teams, consisting of the modification of the SpaceX Dragon space capsule to fit an extra team member in case of an emergency come back, and also leveraged the team's several skill sets as well as training to ensure continued safe as well as effective functions for existing and also potential crews.In Houston, Cassada served as a capsule communicator in NASA's Objective Management Facility as well as assistant to the principal of the Astronaut Office for spaceport station operations. As a scientist as well as examination pilot, Cassada likewise resulted in the advancement of NASA's Office Team System and also Orion spacecraft and stood for the Astronaut Office in technical and also operational testimonials of scientific experiments including the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has actually participated in a notable task in NASA's delivery of reliable and economical human transportation to and also coming from the space station," said Norm Knight, supervisor of trip operations at NASA Johnson. "Through his devotion as well as commitment to individual spaceflight expedition, Josh's job will remain to drive our company forward on our trip back to the Moon, and also past. Our team will definitely miss him and also are delighted to observe what his upcoming trip includes.".As he transitions coming from government service, Cassada will certainly come back to the private sector, dealing with incredibly reduced light diagnosis modern technologies with vast and developing applications in a variety of locations, consisting of quantum systems as well as computer, distant noticing, long-range communication, semiconductor production, and also medical image resolution." I am surprisingly happy for my numerous possibilities here at NASA," Cassada stated, "as well as specifically to have served together with a few of the absolute most outstanding people both on and also off our planet, accomplishing points that are actually only feasible when our experts work and introduce with each other as a team. As human beings, we explore. As well as each clinical adventure, whether in a laboratory on Earth or precede, needs guts to discover as well as develop society. I am actually astonishingly lucky to have been actually neighbored by travelers during my entire career so far as well as going forward. An exploration may seem to be difficult, but it is actually a lot much less thus when you are actually prepared as well as along with the right crewmates.".Prior to his assortment through NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Course, Cassada made his doctoral in High Energy Particle Natural Science from the Educational Institution of Rochester, The Big Apple and was actually an USA Naval force fly, coach aviator, test aviator, and instructor test captain. Throughout his occupation, Cassada has actually gathered greater than 4,000 air travel hrs in over fifty various plane and has been actually granted several army and also civilian awards.Cassada earned a degree coming from White Bear Pond Place Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 as well as obtained his undergraduate's in Natural science in 1995 coming from Albion University in Michigan.Find out more about International Space Station investigation and procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.