.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Relinquish NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada resigned Oct. 1, after 11 years of service to the company across multiple plans, consisting of 157 times in space and also 3 spacewalks. Cassada additionally is a retired United States Naval force leader as well as marine aviator along with more than 20 years of solution.Cassada acted as pilot of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 objective and also Exploration 68 air travel developer aboard the International Space Station, performing myriad routine maintenance, backup, and upgrade activities inside the terminal while additionally adding to hundreds of experiments as well as modern technology demonstrations. His three spacewalks away from the orbiting lab totted more than 21 hrs, efficiently mounting a pair of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the place's electrical capacity. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, additionally constructed the structure for a future IROSA installation and entirely repaired a malfunctioning heritage photovoltaic selection." I wish to extend my truthful appreciation to Josh for his dedication as well as service to human space expedition," mentioned NASA Johnson Room Facility Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments and also success to the improvement of science as well as exploration are going to motivate the newest generation of explorers, the Artemis production, as well as advantage mankind for years to find.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates accomplished significant problem-solving with ground teams, including the customization of the SpaceX Monster space capsule to fit an extra workers participant in case of an urgent come back, and also leveraged the workers's a variety of ability and also training to guarantee continued secure and also efficient functions for current as well as future workers.In Houston, Cassada worked as a pill communicator in NASA's Purpose Management Facility as well as aide to the principal of the Astronaut Office for space station operations. As a scientist and also test aviator, Cassada also helped in the growth of NASA's Industrial Team Program as well as Orion spacecraft as well as exemplified the Astronaut Office in technological as well as functional customer reviews of medical experiments such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Atom Laboratory." Josh has played a significant function in NASA's deliverance of dependable as well as cost-efficient human transport to and from the space station," said Standard Knight, supervisor of trip procedures at NASA Johnson. "Through his commitment and devotion to human spaceflight expedition, Josh's job will continue to push our company ahead on our quest back to the Moon, as well as past. We will miss him and also are actually delighted to see what his following trip requires.".As he transitions from authorities company, Cassada is going to return to the private sector, focusing on very low light diagnosis technologies with vast and arising uses in numerous regions, consisting of quantum networks and also computer, remote picking up, long-range interaction, semiconductor manufacturing, as well as clinical imaging." I am actually astonishingly happy for my numerous possibilities listed below at NASA," Cassada mentioned, "and specifically to have actually provided together with a number of the most impressive folks each on and off our world, accomplishing traits that are only possible when our experts work and also innovate all together as a group. As people, we look into. And also each medical journey, whether in a lab in the world or even precede, needs courage to check out and also develop community. I am actually incredibly blessed to have actually been actually encompassed through explorers during my whole profession so far as well as going forward. A trip might seem difficult, but it's a lot much less thus when you are actually prepared and along with the ideal crewmates.".Before his option through NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Course, Cassada gained his doctorate in High Electricity Particle Physics from the College of Rochester, New York as well as was an U.S. Navy captain, coach fly, exam pilot, and also teacher examination captain. Throughout his career, Cassada has actually gathered much more than 4,000 air travel hours in over fifty various airplane as well as has actually been granted numerous military and also private awards.Cassada got a degree from White Bear Pond Place High School in Minnesota in 1991 as well as got his bachelor's in Natural science in 1995 from Albion College in Michigan.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station study and operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.