Victor Jerome Glover Jr. (born April 30, 1976) is an American naval officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut of the 2013 class. A former F/A‑18 pilot and graduate of the United States Air Force Test Pilot School, in 2020, he piloted the first operational flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon to the International Space Station. Glover served as a flight engineer on Expedition 64 and became the first Black American astronaut to live aboard the ISS. In April 2026, Glover piloted the Artemis II mission, during which he became the first person of colour to travel to the vicinity of the Moon, and one of the four humans who have travelled the farthest from Earth. On April 8, 2023, Glover was announced as the pilot of the Artemis II mission, which launched at 22:35 UTC on April 1, 2026, and flew around the Moon on April 6, 2026. He was joined by NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. Glover is the first person of color and African American to leave low Earth orbit and to travel around the Moon, and he and his crew reached the furthest human distance from Earth. We celebrate his birthday with an AI generated image of the Orion spacecraft he piloted in the Artemis II mission …
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