Astronaut Butch Wilmore retires from NASA several months after extended spaceflight
Summary
Astronaut Butch Wilmore retired from NASA a few months after he ended an unusually long space mission. He spent over nine months in space instead of a planned week due to a technical problem with the Boeing spacecraft. Wilmore and another astronaut, Suni Williams, returned to Earth with the help of SpaceX.Key Facts
- Butch Wilmore retired from NASA shortly after a long space mission.
- Wilmore and Suni Williams launched as test pilots on Boeing’s first astronaut flight.
- Their one-week mission extended to over nine months due to Boeing’s Starliner malfunction.
- Starliner returned empty, and they came back to Earth using SpaceX.
- Wilmore was selected as an astronaut in 2000 and spent 464 days in space across three missions.
- His last mission was 286 days, accounting for nearly two-thirds of his total time in space.
- Wilmore is 62 and had previously retired from the Navy.
- Suni Williams is still with NASA and recently participated in an event at Johnson Space Center.
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