# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josh-a-cassada
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:20:21.479Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josh-a-cassada"
name: "Josh A. Cassada"
slug: "josh-a-cassada"
description: "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."
tagline: "American physicist and astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/NASA_Candidate_Josh_A_Cassada.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1973-07-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.55320533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/astro_josh"
    handle:    "astro_josh"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Josh Cassada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Cassada"
    title: "Josh Cassada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_A._Cassada"
    title: "Josh A. Cassada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_A._Cassada"
    title: "Josh A. Cassada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B4_%D8%A7%DB%8C._%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "جاش ای. کاسادا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_A._Cassada"
    title: "Josh A. Cassada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_A._Cassada"
    title: "Josh A. Cassada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Cassada"
    title: "Josh Cassada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%BEo%C5%A1s_Kasada"
    title: "Džošs Kasada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Cassada"
    title: "Josh Cassada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Cassada"
    title: "Josh Cassada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%88_%D0%90%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Кассада, Джош Аарон"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump