NASA Poach Western spacecraft retires after less than 5 months of extending space flights

One of the two former NASA Space pioneers stuck Retired from the Space Agency, less than five months later Tall long space unexpectedly I finish.

NASA announced the departure of Bush We Wilmor on Wednesday.

Wilmor and Sony Williams It was launched last summer as Pilot test on The first space flight in Boeing.

What should have been a week to a week to International Space Station It turned into a stay for more than nine months due to the Boeing malfunction.

Starliner returned empty, Willmore and Williams returned to Earth in March with Spacex.

Willmore, 62, had already retired from the navy. Williams, 59, a retired marine captain, is still with NASA.

She joined the second lady, Osha Vans at the Johnson Space Center in Houston earlier this week, and participated in the summer reading challenge for school children.

He was chosen as an astronaut in 2000, Wilmore recorded 464 days per orbit for three missions. The latter space shape constitutes nearly two -thirds of this total: 286 days.

“Throughout his career, Bush has served as a technical excellence for what is required of an astronaut,” NASA Akaba’s chief astronaut Akaba said in a statement. “While he takes this new chapter, this dedication itself will undoubtedly continue with what is decided to do after that.”