.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Relinquish NASA.NASA rocketeer Josh Cassada resigned Oct. 1, after 11 years of solution to the agency around several plans, including 157 times in space as well as three spacewalks. Cassada additionally is actually a retired United States Naval force leader and also marine flyer with greater than 20 years of company.Cassada served as pilot of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission and Trip 68 tour developer aboard the International Spaceport station, performing myriad servicing, backup, and also upgrade tasks inside the terminal while also bring about hundreds of practices and also technology demonstrations. His 3 spacewalks away from the orbiting lab completed greater than 21 hrs, properly putting up a pair of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to improve the station's electrical ability. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, likewise constructed the structure for a future IROSA setup and totally rejuvenated a malfunctioning legacy photovoltaic collection." I wish to extend my honest appreciation to Josh for his commitment as well as solution to human space exploration," said NASA Johnson Space Center Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's additions and also achievements to the improvement of science as well as exploration will definitely influence the next generation of explorers, the Artemis creation, and also benefit humanity for many years ahead.".Throughout Expedition 68, Cassada and also his crewmates finished comprehensive analytical along with ground teams, featuring the customization of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to suit an extra team member in the event of an emergency come back, and leveraged the team's a variety of capability and also training to guarantee ongoing safe as well as effective operations for current and future teams.In Houston, Cassada worked as a capsule communicator in NASA's Objective Control Center and also associate to the chief of the Rocketeer Workplace for space station procedures. As a physicist as well as exam fly, Cassada likewise brought about the growth of NASA's Commercial Team Program and also Orion space probe as well as embodied the Astronaut Office in technological and operational customer reviews of scientific practices like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and also Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has played a significant function in NASA's delivery of trustworthy and also economical individual transportation to as well as coming from the space station," stated Norm Knight, supervisor of air travel operations at NASA Johnson. "Through his dedication as well as devotion to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's job will certainly continue to drive us forward on our adventure back to the Moon, and also beyond. Our experts will miss him as well as are actually excited to find what his upcoming adventure necessitates.".As he transitions coming from federal government company, Cassada will definitely go back to the private sector, dealing with remarkably low illumination detection modern technologies along with vast as well as arising treatments in various regions, including quantum networks and computer, remote control noticing, long-range interaction, semiconductor production, and also clinical image resolution." I am incredibly thankful for my a lot of options right here at NASA," Cassada claimed, "and also particularly to have offered along with a few of the most impressive folks each on and also off our earth, accomplishing things that are actually simply possible when our team function and introduce all together as a group. As humans, our team explore. And each scientific journey, whether in a lab in the world or even in space, calls for tenacity to check out as well as develop community. I am actually incredibly privileged to have been actually encompassed through explorers throughout my entire career until now and going forward. An expedition might appear overwhelming, however it is actually a great deal much less therefore when you are actually ready and also along with the ideal crewmates.".Before his assortment through NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Course, Cassada earned his doctorate in High Electricity Fragment Physics from the University of Rochester, New York as well as was a united state Navy captain, trainer fly, exam captain, and also trainer examination fly. Throughout his career, Cassada has actually accumulated greater than 4,000 tour hrs in over fifty different plane as well as has been actually awarded several armed forces and private awards.Cassada earned a degree from White Bear Lake Region Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 as well as received his bachelor's in Physics in 1995 from Albion College in Michigan.Learn more regarding International Space Station research study and also functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.