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NASA Astronaut Barry “Butch” E. Wilmore

Barry “Butch” E. Wilmore was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2000. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on June 5, 2024 for its first crewed flight, arriving at the space station on June 6. Following the agency’s decision to return Starliner uncrewed, the duo became Expedition 71/72 crewmembers and returned home in March 2025 aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft along with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission.

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To date Wilmore has logged 464 days in space.

To date Wilmore has logged 464 days in space.

Wilmore successfully completed 21 combat missions during Operation Desert Storm while operating from the flight deck of the USS Kennedy. His most recent operational deployment was aboard the USS Eisenhower with the “Blue Blasters” of Strike Fighter Squadron 34 (VFA-34), where he flew his final combat missions.

Wilmore successfully completed 21 combat missions during Operation Desert Storm while operating from the flight deck of the USS Kennedy. His most recent operational deployment was aboard the USS Eisenhower with the "Blue Blasters" of Strike Fighter Squadron 34 (VFA-34), where he flew his final combat missions.

Wilmore is from Mt. Juliet, Tennessee and earned degrees from Tennessee Technological University and the University of Tennessee.

Wilmore is from Mt. Juliet, Tennessee and earned degrees from Tennessee Technological University and the University of Tennessee.

(20 July 2012) Portrait of astronaut Barry E. Wilmore. (Credit: NASA)

(16 August 2022) NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams pose for a picture during T-38 pre-flight activities at Ellington Field. (Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz)

(21 February 2015) Extravehicular crewmember 2 (EV2) Terry Virts is reflected in the helmet visor of EV1 Barry Wilmore during Extravehicular Activity 29 (EVA 29). Earth is in the background. (Credit: NASA/Terry Virts)

(28 February 2014) US Astronaut Barry Wilmore, Commander of Expedition 42 aboard the International Space Station (ISS) looks out of the Cupola viewing station taking in the sights of the blue orb of Earth while on a break from science and maintenance duties. The Cupola is a panoramic control tower for the ISS with windows through which operations on the outside of the station can be observed and guided. Through the robotics workstation, astronauts are able to control the space station’s robotic arm, which helps with the attachment and assembly of various station elements, very much like the operator of a building crane. Spacewalking activities can also be observed from the Cupola along with visiting spacecraft and external areas of the station. (Credit: NASA)

(28 September 2014) NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore (Captain, U.S. Navy) (left) and Reid Wiseman (Commander, U.S. Navy), both Expedition 41 flight engineers, pose for a photo near the hatch between the Tranquility node and the Cupola of the International Space Station.

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Barry Wilmore

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Extravehicular crewmember 2 (EV2) Barry Wilmore works at the P3 Truss during Extravehicular Activity 31

(1 March 2015) Extravehicular crewmember 2 (EV2) Barry Wilmore works at the P3 Truss during Extravehicular Activity 31 (EVA 31). (Credit: NASA)

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