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Tennessee Tech Trustee Barry Wilmore remains on the ground, after NASA stopped countdown Monday two hours prior to liftoff. Trouble with a valve in the rocket’s upper stage, the reason. Wilmore and his co-pilot were strapping in, when NASA called off the Monday liftoff. Early Tuesday, NASA announced the launch would be delayed until at least Friday. “To complete data ... Read More »

Tennessee Tech Trustee Barry Wilmore will represent the Golden Eagles as he launches into space Monday night. Tech President Phil Oldham said he can think of no one who better embodies Tennessee Tech’s values and graduates than Wilmore. He said Wilmore is helping to usher in a new era of exploration and discovery from which Tech students are sure to ... Read More »

Astronaut and Tennessee Tech Trustee Barry Wilmore said he will be representing the university Thursday as a member of a uncrewed NASA test launch. It will be the second launch of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. Wilmore said he will be in the mission control center during the launch. “We are more than thrilled to be here, and we’re also very very ... Read More »

The move to commercial space travel has been in the works some time, according to a Tennessee Tech professor. Several billionaires have joined a new generation of the space race, the next being former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ flight on Tuesday. Dean of the College of Engineering Dr. Joseph Slater said he thinks there has been a push for space ... Read More »

Tennessee Tech Board Of Trustees member Barry “Butch” Wilmore will lead the first crewed flight of the CST-100 Starliner launching to the International Space Station That after original crew member Chris Ferguson decided not to fly for personal reasons. Wilmore has been training since 2018 to command next year’s voyage to the space station. NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate ... Read More »