Replacement Astronauts Arrive at International Space Station
It may have been a trip that was out of this world, but it is safe to say NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are ready to come home. That’s because they have been on the International Space Station since June 24…
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About Barry E. Wilmore
Barry Eugene "Butch" Wilmore is an American former NASA astronaut and retired United States Navy test pilot. He is a veteran of three spaceflights, the first of which was an 11-day Space Shuttle mission in November 2009 to the International Space Station. In total, he spent a total of 464 days off Earth and 32 hours outside of a spacecraft. Wilmore was designated as pilot with five other crew members on Space Shuttle Atlantis for the mission STS-129. He served as part of Expedition 41/42 to the International Space Station, and on June 5, 2024, returned there on the Boeing Crew Flight Test, the first crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner. On March 18, 2025, he returned to Earth on the SpaceX Dragon capsule with the other crew members of Crew-9. The crew that replaced the Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts aboard the ISS arrived on March 16.
Everything about Barry E. Wilmore →- Occupation
- naval officer, astronaut, engineer, naval aviator
- Position held
- ISS Expedition commander
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- December 29, 1962