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Three- opportunity Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Retire from NASA

.Oct. 1, 2024.Three-time Spacewalker Josh Cassada to Relinquish NASA.NASA astronaut Josh Cassada resigned Oct. 1, after 11 years of service to the company across several programs, including 157 times precede and 3 spacewalks. Cassada additionally is a retired United States Naval force leader as well as naval aviator along with more than 20 years of solution.Cassada worked as captain of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission as well as Expedition 68 trip engineer aboard the International Spaceport station, executing myriad routine maintenance, contingency, as well as upgrade tasks inside the terminal while also helping in manies experiments and also technology manifestations. His three spacewalks away from the orbiting research laboratory totted much more than 21 hours, effectively putting in a set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) to boost the station's electric capability. Cassada, alongside crewmate NASA rocketeer Frank Rubio, likewise set up the commercial infrastructure for a future IROSA installation and fully restored a malfunctioning tradition solar variety." I desire to extend my sincere thankfulness to Josh for his devotion and service to human area exploration," said NASA Johnson Room Facility Director Vanessa Wyche. "Josh's additions and also success to the improvement of scientific research and also exploration will definitely motivate the next generation of explorers, the Artemis production, as well as advantage humankind for years ahead.".Throughout Exploration 68, Cassada as well as his crewmates accomplished extensive problem-solving along with ground staffs, featuring the customization of the SpaceX Monster spacecraft to accommodate an extra crew member in the event of an unexpected emergency profits, and leveraged the workers's various skill sets and also training to make certain continued secure and also effective procedures for present as well as potential crews.In Houston, Cassada functioned as a capsule communicator in NASA's Goal Management Center and assistant to the chief of the Rocketeer Workplace for spaceport station operations. As a scientist as well as exam fly, Cassada additionally resulted in the development of NASA's Commercial Crew System and Orion space capsule and also embodied the Astronaut Workplace in specialized and operational evaluations of scientific experiments like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Cold Atom Lab." Josh has participated in a substantial part in NASA's delivery of trusted and also economical human transit to and also from the space station," mentioned Norm Knight, director of tour procedures at NASA Johnson. "With his dedication and also commitment to human spaceflight exploration, Josh's work will continue to push our company forward on our experience back to the Moon, as well as past. Our company are going to miss him as well as are excited to see what his next journey requires.".As he transitions from federal government company, Cassada will definitely return to the economic sector, servicing remarkably reduced light diagnosis innovations along with vast and developing applications in different locations, consisting of quantum systems as well as computing, distant sensing, long-range interaction, semiconductor production, and also clinical imaging." I am surprisingly grateful for my several options below at NASA," Cassada said, "and specifically to have provided alongside some of the best outstanding people both on and off our planet, performing factors that are actually just possible when our team function and innovate together as a group. As humans, our team check out. And each medical journey, whether in a laboratory in the world or even in space, calls for nerve to explore and advance society. I am incredibly lucky to have actually been surrounded by explorers during my entire career thus far and also going forward. An expedition may seem to be challenging, however it's a great deal less therefore when you are actually prepared and also with the appropriate crewmates.".Before his assortment by NASA in 2013 as a participant of NASA's 21st Lesson, Cassada got his doctoral in High Power Fragment Physics coming from the Educational Institution of Rochester, The Big Apple and also was actually a united state Navy captain, teacher pilot, examination captain, as well as teacher examination captain. Throughout his profession, Cassada has actually built up greater than 4,000 trip hrs in over fifty different plane and also has actually been actually rewarded a variety of military and private awards.Cassada graduated from White Bear Lake Place Secondary School in Minnesota in 1991 and also acquired his undergraduate's in Physics in 1995 coming from Albion University in Michigan.Discover more about International Space Station research as well as operations at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Space Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.