“It is hard to imagine people arguing down there, not to mention fighting. It looks so peaceful… so calm down on earth. From space, there are no borders that you can see. We are lucky to live on such a planet and we should not take it for granted. After my space experience, I am a lot more tolerant of people and opinions, of everything.”
-A 2007 statement by NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who announced her retirement from the agency earlier today. Although she spend 27 years with NASA, she will probably be best remembered for her Boeing Starliner flight to the International Space Station in 2024 that was supposed to last one week but became nine months instead. It was a replay of Gilligan’s Island in space. Her fellow astronaut on that troubled flight, Butch Wilmore, retired from NASA last August.
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