NASA astronaut Suni Williams (USNA '87), who stayed in space for 9 months after spacecraft problem, retires

NASA astronaut Suni Williams, a woman who learned to live with uncertainty hundreds of kilometres above Earth, has quietly closed one of the most remarkable chapters in modern spaceflight.

Williams retired on 27 December after 27 years with the U.S. space agency, NASA announced this week, bringing to an end a career defined not just by milestones, but by resilience.

Williams went on three missions to the International Space Station, the first of which was in 2006 and in which she was carried aboard the space shuttle Discovery, NASA said.

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BZ '87!