WE ARE NOT TALKING ENOUGH about the fact that a Black man led the human race to the farthest we've ever been in the cosmos today!
Victor Jerome Glover Jr.Β (born April 30, 1976) is an AmericanΒ naval officer,Β test pilot, andΒ NASA astronautΒ of theΒ 2013 class. A formerΒ F/Aβ18Β pilot and graduate of theΒ United States Air Force Test Pilot School, he piloted the first operational flight ofΒ SpaceX's Crew DragonΒ to theΒ International Space Station. Glover served as a flight engineer onΒ Expedition 64Β and became the firstΒ Caribbean AmericanΒ astronaut to live aboard the ISS.
On April 1, 2026, Glover launched as pilot of theΒ Artemis IIΒ mission, becoming the first Black man to travel beyondΒ low Earth orbitΒ and the first to journey to the vicinity of theΒ Moon. He is also, along with the other crew members of Artemis II, the first human that has traveled the farthest fromΒ Earth.
And he did it all while his beautiful Black family watched from home with the rest of us.