One of NASA’s two previously stuck astronauts has retired from the space agency, less than five months after his unexpectedly long spaceflight came to an end.

NASA announced Butch Wilmore’s departure on Wednesday.

Wilmore and Suni Williams launched last summer as test pilots on Boeing’s first astronaut flight .

What should have been a weeklong trip to the International Space Station turned into a stay of more than nine months because of Boeing’s malfunctioning Starliner. 5

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Starliner came back empty, and Wilmore and Williams returned to Earth in March with SpaceX.

Wilmore, 62, had already retired from the Navy. Williams, 59, also a retired Navy captain, is still with NASA.

She joined Second Lady Usha Vance at Johnson Space Center in Houston earlier this we

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