Suni Williams retired from NASA in December after 27 years with the agency. She accumulated more than 62 hours of spacewalk time across nine operations, the record for a woman. Williams and crewmate Barry "Butch" Wilmore launched on Boeing's first crewed Starliner test flight in June 2024 that was intended as a short ISS mission but extended to 286 days due to spacecraft technical problems. Their prolonged stay generated political controversy on Earth. They returned to Earth last March aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule. Williams flew three times and logged 608 days in space, second only to Peggy Whitson.
"Suni Williams, one of two Nasa astronauts whose 10-day test flight mission turned into a nine-month odyssey on the International Space Station (ISS), has retired from the US space agency. The 60-year-old former navy captain left in December after 27 years with Nasa, according to a press release from the agency on Tuesday. Jared Isaacman, the agency's new administrator, praised her as a trailblazer in human spaceflight."
"She retires holding the record for the most accumulated spacewalk time by a woman more than 62 hours in nine separate operations. But she will be best remembered for the ill-fated first crewed flight of Boeing's new Starliner capsule in June 2024, when Williams and Barry Butch Wilmore launched on what should have been a short test mission to the ISS, but ended up staying 286 days after technical problems with the spacecraft."
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