.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Relinquish NASA.NASA astronaut Josh Cassada resigned Oct. 1, after 11 years of company to the agency throughout several courses, featuring 157 times in space as well as 3 spacewalks. Cassada additionally is actually a retired USA Navy captain and marine aviator along with greater than twenty years of solution.Cassada acted as aviator of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 purpose and also Exploration 68 air travel engineer aboard the International Space Station, executing myriad routine maintenance, backup, and also upgrade activities inside the station while additionally helping in hundreds of practices and modern technology manifestations. His 3 spacewalks away from the orbiting lab completed greater than 21 hrs, properly putting in a set of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to increase the station's electrical capacity. Cassada, together with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, likewise assembled the structure for a potential IROSA installment as well as entirely restored a malfunctioning tradition photo voltaic collection." I want to stretch my earnest gratitude to Josh for his dedication as well as solution to individual area expedition," mentioned NASA Johnson Area Facility Supervisor Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's payments as well as success to the innovation of science and also expedition will influence the future generation of explorers, the Artemis production, and also advantage humanity for many years to come.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada and also his crewmates completed substantial analytical along with ground groups, featuring the adjustment of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to suit an added team member in case of an unexpected emergency return, and also leveraged the workers's a variety of capability and instruction to make certain ongoing secure as well as reliable procedures for existing as well as potential staffs.In Houston, Cassada worked as a pill communicator in NASA's Objective Control Facility as well as assistant to the principal of the Rocketeer Workplace for space station operations. As a physicist and also examination aviator, Cassada additionally contributed to the development of NASA's Business Crew Plan and Orion spacecraft as well as exemplified the Rocketeer Office in technical and also operational testimonials of medical experiments like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Weather Atom Lab." Josh has played a considerable task in NASA's saving of reputable and economical human transit to and also coming from the space station," claimed Rule Knight, supervisor of flight procedures at NASA Johnson. "By means of his devotion as well as dedication to individual spaceflight exploration, Josh's work will definitely continue to drive our company onward on our experience back to the Moon, and also beyond. Our team will definitely overlook him and also are actually thrilled to observe what his upcoming quest requires.".As he transitions from federal government service, Cassada will go back to the private sector, focusing on exceptionally reduced light diagnosis innovations with broad and also surfacing treatments in various areas, consisting of quantum networks and also computer, remote picking up, long-range interaction, semiconductor production, as well as medical image resolution." I am astonishingly happy for my a lot of opportunities listed here at NASA," Cassada mentioned, "and particularly to have offered along with several of the absolute most amazing folks each on as well as off our earth, performing points that are just achievable when we work and also introduce together as a group. As human beings, we explore. And also each medical journey, whether in a lab on Earth or even precede, calls for guts to explore as well as develop community. I am actually surprisingly privileged to have actually been bordered through explorers during the course of my whole entire career thus far as well as moving forward. A trip may seem to be overwhelming, but it's a great deal less therefore when you're prepared as well as with the correct crewmates.".Just before his variety through NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Training class, Cassada got his doctorate in High Electricity Fragment Physics coming from the College of Rochester, New York City and also was actually an USA Naval force fly, trainer pilot, examination captain, as well as instructor test pilot. Throughout his career, Cassada has gathered greater than 4,000 trip hrs in over fifty different plane and also has actually been actually granted different military and also civilian awards.Cassada earned a degree from White Bear Pond Location Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 as well as received his undergraduate's in Natural science in 1995 coming from Albion College in Michigan.Discover more concerning International Space Station research study as well as procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.