(FILES) NASA astronaut Suni Williams laughs while answering a question during NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 post-flight news conference at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on March 31, 2025. A NASA astronaut who was stuck in space for nine months because of problems with her spacecraft has retired after 27 years of service, the space agency said on January 20, 2026.Suni Williams stepped down from her post on December 27 making her ill-fated mission her last journey to space. (Photo by Mark Felix / AFP via Getty Images)