Key Highlights
- Williams' crewmate on Boeing's ill-fated capsule test flight, Butch Wilmore, left NASA last summer.
- Also Read | 'Only thought we'd be up there for just a little time’, Sunita Williams opens up on nine months in orbit The pair was launched to the space station in 2024, the first people to fly Boeing's new Starliner crew capsule.
- Their mission should have lasted just a week, but stretched to more than nine months because of Starliner trouble.
- In the end, they caught a ride home last March with SpaceX.
- Williams, 60, a former Navy captain, spent more than 27 years at NASA, logging 608 days in space over three station missions.
