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NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Retires After Remarkable 27-Year Career

NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Retires After Remarkable 27-Year Career

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 NASA astronaut Suni Williams has officially retired from the space agency, marking the end of a 27-year career in human spaceflight. According to NASA, Williams' retirement became effective on December 27, 2025, following her extended stay aboard the International Space Station as part of the troubled Boeing Starliner test mission.

Williams and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore launched aboard Boeing's new Starliner capsule in June 2024 for what was supposed to be a one-week test flight. However, technical problems with the spacecraft's thrusters and other systems forced NASA to extend their mission to more than nine months. The two astronauts ultimately returned to Earth in March 2025 aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule instead, with NASA opting to fly the Starliner home empty due to safety concerns.

Throughout her career, Williams set numerous spaceflight records. She has logged 608 days in space, the second-most cumulative time by any NASA astronaut. During her spacewalks, she accumulated 62 hours of free-floating work in space across nine different excursions, making her the highest-ranking woman in that category. Williams also became the first person to complete a triathlon in space in 2012 and the first to run a marathon in space in 2007.

According to CNN, Wilmore, Williams' crewmate on the Starliner mission, left NASA last summer, making both astronauts from that historic test flight no longer with the agency. Their retirements follow a similar pattern to earlier commercial spacecraft test pilots Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who retired after the first crewed SpaceX Crew Dragon mission in 2020.

On the Starliner front itself, NASA has decided that the next mission will be unmanned. According to reports, the space agency wants to ensure all of the capsule's thruster and other issues are completely resolved before putting anyone on board again. Boeing's cargo-only test flight is expected to take place later in 2026.

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