.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Relinquish NASA.NASA astronaut Josh Cassada resigned Oct. 1, after 11 years of solution to the organization throughout various courses, including 157 times in space and three spacewalks. Cassada additionally is actually a retired United States Navy leader and also marine flyer with more than two decades of solution.Cassada functioned as fly of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission as well as Expedition 68 air travel developer aboard the International Space Station, carrying out myriad routine maintenance, contingency, as well as upgrade tasks inside the station while likewise adding to hundreds of practices and innovation demonstrations. His three spacewalks beyond the orbiting lab amounted to much more than 21 hours, effectively putting up a set of International Spaceport station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to enhance the station's electric capacity. Cassada, along with crewmate NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, likewise set up the commercial infrastructure for a future IROSA setup as well as totally brought back a malfunctioning legacy solar energy collection." I want to prolong my honest thankfulness to Josh for his devotion and service to individual area exploration," pointed out NASA Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's contributions as well as accomplishments to the advancement of scientific research and also exploration will certainly influence the next generation of travelers, the Artemis creation, and advantage humankind for years to follow.".Throughout Trip 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates completed extensive problem-solving with ground teams, featuring the customization of the SpaceX Dragon space probe to suit an added team member in case of an urgent return, and also leveraged the workers's a variety of skill sets and instruction to guarantee continuous safe as well as reliable functions for present and potential crews.In Houston, Cassada acted as a capsule communicator in NASA's Purpose Management Facility and associate to the main of the Rocketeer Office for spaceport station operations. As a physicist as well as test pilot, Cassada also supported the advancement of NASA's Industrial Workers Course and also Orion spacecraft as well as represented the Rocketeer Office in technical and also functional evaluations of medical experiments such as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as Cold Weather Atom Laboratory." Josh has played a substantial job in NASA's deliverance of reputable as well as cost-efficient human transportation to and also from the space station," stated Rule Knight, director of flight operations at NASA Johnson. "Through his dedication and also commitment to individual spaceflight exploration, Josh's job are going to remain to push our company ahead on our journey back to the Moon, as well as beyond. We will certainly skip him and are actually excited to see what his next trip necessitates.".As he transitions from government solution, Cassada will return to the private sector, servicing incredibly reduced light diagnosis innovations along with broad and developing applications in several areas, consisting of quantum networks and also computer, remote control sensing, long-range interaction, semiconductor production, as well as health care image resolution." I am actually astonishingly grateful for my many chances listed here at NASA," Cassada pointed out, "as well as especially to have served alongside a number of the best amazing people both on and off our earth, completing factors that are merely feasible when our experts work as well as innovate all together as a team. As humans, our experts look into. And also each scientific journey, whether in a lab on Earth or even in space, calls for guts to explore as well as advance community. I am actually extremely lucky to have actually been neighbored through travelers during the course of my entire occupation up until now and going ahead. A trip may appear intimidating, yet it's a whole lot much less so when you are actually equipped as well as with the best crewmates.".Just before his selection through NASA in 2013 as a member of NASA's 21st Class, Cassada gained his doctorate in High Energy Fragment Natural Science coming from the University of Rochester, The Big Apple and also was actually an USA Navy fly, coach aviator, test pilot, as well as coach test aviator. Throughout his occupation, Cassada has collected greater than 4,000 air travel hours in over 50 various plane as well as has been awarded numerous military as well as civilian awards.Cassada earned a degree from White Bear Lake Region High School in Minnesota in 1991 and got his undergraduate's in Physics in 1995 from Albion University in Michigan.Find out more about International Spaceport station study and functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.