Sunita Williams Bids Farewell to Space After 27 Years NASA astronaut Sunita Williams has officially retired after an illustrious 27-year career in space exploration. She completed three missions aboard the International Space Station (ISS), logged 608 days in space, and conducted nine spacewalks totaling over 62 hours. Williams made history as the first person to run a marathon in space and played a key role in NASA’s commercial crew missions, including Boeing’s Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew-9. Bo

Sunita Williams is finally coming home! After an unexpected 9-month stay aboard the ISS, she and Butch Wilmore are set to return—ending what was meant to be a short test mission but turned into a historic endurance feat. Helium leaks and thruster malfunctions on Boeing’s Starliner made their return unsafe, keeping them in space far longer than planned. But instead of waiting idly, they made every moment count, completing 900 hours of research across 150 experiments and technology demonstrations,