Victor Glover is an American NASA astronaut, United States Navy captain and test pilot who in 2020 piloted the first operational flight of SpaceX Crew Dragon to the International Space Station, becoming the first Black American astronaut to live aboard the station as a flight engineer on Expedition 64. In April 2026 he piloted the Artemis II lunar flyby mission, becoming the first person of color to travel beyond low Earth orbit and to the vicinity of the Moon.
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Victor Glover is a NASA astronaut assigned as pilot of the Artemis II crewed lunar flyby mission.
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Glover served as a flight engineer on Expedition 64 and became the first Black American astronaut to live aboard the ISS.
Missions Crewed: Artemis II, Artemis II
Artemis II was crewed by four astronauts: commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialist Christina Koch, all from the NASA Astronaut Corps, along with mission specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Astronaut Corps.
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1976-04-30
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United States
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