Barry Wilmore

Capt. Barry Wilmore, a captain in the U.S. Navy, is a veteran of two spaceflights and has accumulated a total of 178 days in space.

In 2021, Wilmore will command the inaugural flight of Boeing's Starliner as part of NASA's crew flight test to the International Space Station.

In September 2014, Mr. Wilmore launched aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket 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, Capt. Wilmore served as a pilot aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis for STS-129, traveling 4.5 million miles in 171 orbits.

Capt. Wilmore has accumulated more than 7,000 flight hours and 663 carrier landings, all in tactical jet aircraft, and is a graduate of the United States Naval Test Pilot School (USNTPS). During his tenure as a fleet Naval officer and pilot, Capt. Wilmore completed four operational deployments, flying the A-7E and FA 18 aircraft from the decks of the USS Forrestal, USS Kennedy, USS Enterprise and the USS Eisenhower aircraft carriers.