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Astronaut Butch Wilmore Retires from NASA

Career Included Test Flight Aboard Boeing Starliner

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Tom Patton
Aug 13, 2025
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After 25 years at NASA, flying in four different spacecraft, accumulating 464 days in space, astronaut and test pilot Butch Wilmore has retired from NASA.

“From my earliest days, I have been captivated by the marvels of creation, looking upward with an insatiable curiosity. This curiosity propelled me into the skies, and eventually to space."
Barry "Butc…

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