Barry E. Wilmore (Captain, U.S. Navy, Ret.) is a veteran of three spaceflights and has accumulated a total of 464 days in space. Wilmore launched to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz in Sept. 2014 as a member of Expedition 41. He served as a Flight Engineer until November when he assumed command of the station upon arrival of the Expedition 42 crew. He returned to Earth in March 2015. During this mission, he logged 167 days in space and performed four spacewalks totaling 25 hours, 36 minutes. In 2009, Wilmore served as a pilot aboard space shuttle Atlantis for STS-129, traveling 4.5 million miles in 171 orbits.

Most recently, 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 became Expedition 71/72 crewmembers and returned home in March 2025 aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission.