"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."
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.
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