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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 is currently living and working aboard the space station as part of the Expedition 71/72 crew and will return home in February 2025 aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission.

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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)