Josh Aaron Cassada is an American physicist, test pilot, and former NASA astronaut. Prior to his selection to join NASA in 2013, Cassada served as a test pilot in the US Navy, and has over 3,500 hours in more than 40 aircraft, and 23 combat missions. In August 2018, Cassada was selected for CTS-1, the first operational mission of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner, but subsequently reassigned to SpaceX Crew-5.
2013 ASCAN Josh Cassada during wilderness survival training (1)
Bill Nelson and Pam Melroy wave at the SpaceX Crew-5 crew as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A.
Josh Cassada is helped onto a helicopter onboard the SpaceX recovery ship Shannon shortly after he landed while onboard SpaceX Dragon Endeavor spacecraft in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida, Saturday, March 11, 2023.
SpaceX Crew-5 Official Portrait
The crew of the SpaceX Crew-5 mission before the launch.
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ISS-68 Astronauts Koichi Wakata, Josh Cassada, and Nicole Mann
ISS-68 Astronauts Frank Rubio and Josh Cassada configure spacewalking tools
Bill Nelson looks on the SpaceX Crew-5 crew as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A.
The crew of the SpaceX Crew-5 mission before the launch.
Andrey Fedyayev, Anna Kikina, Dmitrij Petelin, Francisco Rubio, Jessica Watkins, Josh A. Cassada, Kjell Lindgren, Koichi Wakata, Nicole Mann, Robert Hines, Samantha Cristoforetti, Sergey Prokopyev, Stephen Bowen, Sultan Al Niadi, Warren Hoburg, expedition to the International Space Station,