The Navy Pilot Who Dodged Missiles — Then Got Stuck in Orbit | Ep 45 w/ Captain Butch Wilmore

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Captain Barry "Butch" Wilmore has spent 464 days in space — 278 of them unexpected. When the Boeing Starliner he was flight-testing began losing thrusters on its approach to the International Space Station, a mission planned for roughly a week turned into a nine-and-a-half-month stay in orbit and a return to Earth aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule. In this feature-length conversation, Jeremy Boreing sits down with the retired NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy test pilot to talk about fear, faith, family, and what it actually takes to keep your head when the machine you're strapped into starts to fail. Wilmore's story runs from the hollers of Mount Juliet, Tennessee — where a mischievous Baptist kid…