Barry Wilmore
Barry Wilmore | |
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Wilmore in 2009 | |
| Born | Barry Eugene Wilmore December 29, 1962 Murfreesboro, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Other names | Butch |
| Education | Tennessee Technological University (BS, MS) University of Tennessee, Knoxville (MS) |
| Space career | |
| NASA astronaut | |
| Rank | Captain, USN |
Time in space | 464 days, 8 hours, 2 minutes |
| Selection | NASA Group 18 (2000) |
Total EVAs | 5 |
Total EVA time | 31 hours, 2 minutes |
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Mission insignia | |
Barry Eugene "Butch" Wilmore (born December 29, 1962) is an American NASA astronaut and United States Navy test pilot. He has had three spaceflights, the first of which was an 11-day Space Shuttle mission in November 2009, to the International Space Station. 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 to the ISS 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.
Prior to being selected as a NASA astronaut in July 2000, Wilmore was an experienced Navy test pilot. He also participated in the development of the T-45 Goshawk jet trainer.