Artemis II Pilot Victor Glover: I Hope One Day We Don’t View This As Black History, It’s About Human History
Artemis II pilot Victor Glover is asked about being the first black man to visit the moon.
VICTOR GLOVER, ARTEMIS II PILOT: It is a big question, and I want to highlight, I guess, maybe one facet of this is the tension, I call it. I live in this dichotomy between happiness that a young woman can look at Christina and just physicalize her passion or her interests, or even if it’s not something she wants to do, she can just be like, girl power, and that’s awesome, and that young brown boys and girls can look at me and go, hey, he looks like me, and he’s doing what, and that’s great. I love that, but I also hope we are pushing the other direction that one day we don’t have to talk about these first, that one day this is just – and listen to this – that this is the human history. It’s about human history. It’s the story of humanity, not black history, not women’s history, but that it becomes human history.
Victor Glover (pilot of Artemis II) was already a spacecraft pilot for SpaceX Crew-1. He is a naval captain who has had his naval aviator wings for 25 years. He has three (3) masters degrees, including in flight test engineering and systems engineering. He's been a test pilot… pic.twitter.com/GwLspCkWRV
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