Suni Williams, Who Was Stranded for 9 Months in the International Space Station When Boeing Starliner Malfunctioned, Retires After 27 Years of Service
Williams lived through a space adventure that got people on Earth biting their nails.
Veteran NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who was stuck for nine months at the International Space Station, has retired.
Associated Press reported:
“The space agency announced the news Tuesday (20), saying her retirement took effect at the end of December.
Williams’ crewmate on Boeing’s ill-fated capsule test flight, Butch Wilmore, left NASA last summer.”
Williams and Wilmore were in the first Starliner crewed flight, but their one-week mission ended up lasting more than 9 months after the Boeing ran into trouble.
They ended up returning home last March in a SpaceX Dragon capsule.
“Boeing’s next Starliner mission will carry cargo — not people — to the space station. NASA wants to make sure all of the capsule’s thruster and other issues are solved before putting anyone on board. The trial run will take place later this year.
Williams, 60, a former Navy captain, spent more than 27 years at NASA, logging 608 days in space over three station missions. She also set a record for the most spacewalking time by a woman: 62 hours during nine excursions.”
NBC News reported:
“’Suni Williams has been a trailblazer in human spaceflight, shaping the future of exploration through her leadership aboard the space station and paving the way for commercial missions to low Earth orbit’, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said in the statement.”
Williams have said she and Wilmore enjoyed their extended time living and working at the ISS.
“’Though it was longer than any flight either one of us have flown before, I think my body remembered’, she told NBC News in an interview alongside Wilmore in June.”
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