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NASA Astronaut Talks Faith In Space: ‘The Word Of God … I Need It’

by Sandra Rhodes
April 1, 2025
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NASA Astronaut Talks Faith In Space: ‘The Word Of God … I Need It’

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, wearing Boeing spacesuits, departs the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center for Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to board the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for the Crew Flight Test launch, on June 5, 2024. Boeing on June 5 will try once more to launch astronauts aboard a Starliner capsule bound for the International Space Station. Liftoff is targeted for 10:52 am (1452 GMT) for a roughly one-week stay at the orbital laboratory. (Photo by Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / AFP) (Photo by MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO/AFP via Getty Images)

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NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore has spent the past nine minutes months floating in the heavens. So it seems only right how important his faith is to him.

Wilmore, along with fellow astronaut Suni Williams, spent nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in a mission that was supposed to last eight days, but turned into nine months, Fox News reported.

The pair spoke with Fox News’ Bill Hemmer Monday and Wilmore revealed how his faith endured in space.

“I heard that you were still attending your church services from space. Can you tell me a bit about why that was important for you to do?” Hemmer asked.

“Well, goodness, the Word of God … I need it,” Wilmore said. “My pastors are the finest pastors on or off, in this case, the planet.”

Wilmore would watch the services from his Tennessee church on the ISS.

“I also [tuned] into Grace Baptist Church in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. A buddy of mine is an elder there and a pastor there, and I would watch their service as well, every single week,” he said.

The astronaut found the weekly services “invigorating” and stressed how he needed Christian fellowship.

“Part of what I need, as a believer in Jesus Christ, to continue that focus – a system, day in and day out, because I need that fellowship, even though it’s fellowship from afar,” Wilmore said. “And it’s not like being fellowship up close, but still I need it.”

Williams and Wilmore returned to Earth on the SpaceX Dragon capsule on March 18.

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Sandra Rhodes

IJR, Contributor Writer She was a Story Editor for Indpendent Journal Review since November 2022 and has written for IJR since February 2024. She has been in the newspaper business in various capacities since 1998.

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