Barry E. Wilmore

Barry Eugene "Butch" Wilmore is a retired American NASA astronaut and United States Navy test pilot. He has had five 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 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.

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1962  Wikimedia, Wikidata
Barry Eugene Wilmore; Barry Wilmore; Butch Wilmore
naval officer, test pilot, fighter pilot, naval aviator, engineer, astronaut, 

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  Boeing Crew Flight Test ⓘ
  crewed mission of Boeing Starliner to the International Space Station

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  Soyuz TMA-14M ⓘ
  2014 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS

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  SpaceX Crew-9 ⓘ
  NASA Commercial Crew Program mission to the International Space Station

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  STS-129 ⓘ
  human spaceflight

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  Expedition 41 ⓘ
  41st expedition to the International Space Station

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  Expedition 42 ⓘ
  42nd expedition to the International Space Station

United States, 

1962-12-29T00:00:00Z

1962-12-29T00:00:00Z

1962 Barry E. Wilmore

2014-09-10T00:00:00Z

2014-11-10T00:00:00Z

2014 Expedition 41

2014-11-10T00:00:00Z

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2014 — 2015 Expedition 42

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STS-134 Lee Archambault and Barry Wilmore are pictured at their console in the space shuttle flight control room

ISS-21 Melvin, Stott, Williams and Wilmore pose for a photo in the Unity node

KSC-20221018-PH KLS01 0222 (cropped)

ISS-42 Butch Wilmore is holding a 3-D coupon works with the new 3-D printer

ISS-42 Butch Wilmore and Samantha Cristoforetti grapple SpaceX Dragon CRS-5

ISS-42 Barry Wilmore and Samantha Cristoforetti pose for the camera on Christmas day

ISS-41 Barry Wilmore and Reid Wiseman pose for a photo near the Cupola

ISS-42 Wilmore, Cristoforetti and Virts pose for a photo

Butch Wilmore, left, and Mike Fincke, right, watch as a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard is rolled out ahead of OFT-2.

Butch Wilmore at Boeing OFT-2 Crew & Science Briefing

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
class	orbit		Boeing Crew Flight Test	Barry E. Wilmore, Sunita Williams, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		Soyuz TMA-14M	Aleksandr Samokutyayev, Barry E. Wilmore, Soyuz TMA-M, Yelena Serova, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		SpaceX Crew-9	Aleksandr Gorbunov, Barry E. Wilmore, Nick Hague, Stephanie Wilson, Sunita Williams, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		STS-129	Barry E. Wilmore, Charles O. Hobaugh, Leland D. Melvin, Michael Foreman, Nicole Stott, Randolph Bresnik, Robert Satcher, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2014	Expedition 41	Aleksandr Samokutyayev, Alexander Gerst, Barry E. Wilmore, Gregory Reid Wiseman, Maksim Surayev, Yelena Serova, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
class	spaceflight	2014	Expedition 42	Aleksandr Samokutyayev, Anton Shkaplerov, Barry E. Wilmore, Samantha Cristoforetti, Terry W. Virts, Yelena Serova, expedition to the International Space Station,	Wikidata
commons	image		STS-134 Lee Archambault and Barry Wilmore are pictured at their console in the space shuttle flight control room		Commons
commons	image		ISS-21 Melvin, Stott, Williams and Wilmore pose for a photo in the Unity node		Commons
commons	image		KSC-20221018-PH KLS01 0222 (cropped)		Commons
commons	image		ISS-42 Butch Wilmore is holding a 3-D coupon works with the new 3-D printer		Commons
commons	image		ISS-42 Butch Wilmore and Samantha Cristoforetti grapple SpaceX Dragon CRS-5		Commons
commons	image		ISS-42 Barry Wilmore and Samantha Cristoforetti pose for the camera on Christmas day		Commons
commons	image		ISS-41 Barry Wilmore and Reid Wiseman pose for a photo near the Cupola		Commons
commons	image		ISS-42 Wilmore, Cristoforetti and Virts pose for a photo		Commons
commons	image		Butch Wilmore, left, and Mike Fincke, right, watch as a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard is rolled out ahead of OFT-2.		Commons
commons	image		Butch Wilmore at Boeing OFT-2 Crew & Science Briefing		Commons