India, Jan. 22 -- Indian-origin astronaut Sunita 'Suni' Williams has retired from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) after 27 years of service, the US space agency confirmed. Her retirement took effect on December 27, 2025. Across her career, Williams, now 60, flew three missions to the International Space Station (ISS), spending a total of 608 days in space and logging 62 hours across nine spacewalks - a record for a woman.

Williams is currently in India and on Tuesday, she spoke at the American Center in New Delhi, reflecting on how astronauts instinctively search for "home" once they reach orbit: "One of the first things you do when you get to space is that we all want to look for our home. I grew up in Massachusetts...