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The astronaut is stepping away from NASA shortly after returning from a troubled test flight that left him aboard the ISS ...
One of NASA's two previously stuck astronauts has retired. NASA announced Butch Wilmore's departure from the space agency on ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida at 11:43 a.m. EDT ...
Crew-11 will send NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, along with Kimiya Yui of JAXA (the Japan Aerospace ...
An international crew of four astronauts launched toward the International Space Station from Florida on Friday aboard a ...
Barry “Butch” Wilmore has flown on the space shuttle, a Russian Soyuz, Boeing’s Starliner and a SpaceX Crew Dragon. After 25 ...
The 1981 Mt. Juliet High School graduate has logged 464 days in space over three flights during his NASA career.
Wilmore earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Tennessee Tech and a master’s degree in aviation systems from the ...
The figure was from 2019, and was a minimum as opposed to the starting salary. By 2025, NASA astronauts had starting salaries ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Butch Wilmore, a Tennessee native and a graduate of both the University of Tennessee and Tennessee ...
If you look up into the sky at just the right time, you might catch a Hampton Roads native orbiting by. Rest assured, Zena ...
NASA astronaut Don Pettit shares a long-exposure photograph that captured the curve of Earth, the glow of the planet's atmosphere, streaks of city lights and flashes of lightning. Hovering above it ...