NASA astronaut Sunita Williams retires after months-long space station mission

Updated On: 21 January, 2026 08:23 AM IST | Cape Canaveral | AP

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