While one is preparing for another launch, two former NASA astronauts were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams weren’t sure if they would ever return home, they admitted in a new BBC interview published on May 30. The astronauts left for space in June 2024 for an eight-day mission and returned home nine months later in March 2025.

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation has revealed the 2025 inductees to the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. Veteran NASA astronauts Bernard Harris and Peggy Whitson will join the 109 astronauts already in the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

As Williams and Wilmore approached the International Space Station last year, the thrusters on their Boeing Starliner capsule gave out, leaving the spacecraft unable to move forward.

Dr. Bernard Harris Jr., a decorated astronaut who became the first Black person to perform a spacewalk in 1995, is being inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the U.S. astronauts left on the International Space Station last year by Boeing's troubled Starliner capsule, are on the up after returning to Earth in March, emerging from weeks of physical therapy to ramp up work with Boeing and various NASA programs.

“I miss cooking for my family, but this hits the spot in its own way,” he wrote in his tweet. Kim has been on the spacecraft since early April and will spend eight months there, according to the Daily Mail.

Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams have shared some of the health struggles they've had since returning to Earth