NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore has officially retired less than five months after his unexpectedly long spaceflight came to an end.

Wilmore, 62, announced he was hanging up his spacesuit for good on Wednesday.

“After 25 years at NASA, flying in four different spacecraft, accumulating 464 days in space, astronaut and test pilot Butch Wilmore has retired,” NASA wrote in a press release .

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

“From my earliest days, I

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