{"id":90135,"date":"2026-04-03T14:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/artemis-ii-pilot-victor-glover-i-hope-one-day-we-dont-view-this-as-black-history-its-about-human-history\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:42:23","slug":"artemis-ii-pilot-victor-glover-i-hope-one-day-we-dont-view-this-as-black-history-its-about-human-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/artemis-ii-pilot-victor-glover-i-hope-one-day-we-dont-view-this-as-black-history-its-about-human-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II Pilot Victor Glover: I Hope One Day We Don&#8217;t View This As Black History, It&#8217;s About Human History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Artemis II pilot Victor Glover is asked about being the first black man to visit the moon.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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&#8217;s not something she wants to do, she can just be like, girl power, and that&#8217;s awesome, and that young brown boys and girls can look at me and go, hey, he looks like me, and he&#8217;s doing what, and that&#8217;s great. I love that, but I also hope we are pushing the other direction that one day we don&#8217;t have to talk about these first, that one day this is just \u2013 and listen to this \u2013 that this is the human history.  It&#8217;s about human history. It&#8217;s the story of humanity, not black history, not women&#8217;s history, but that it becomes human history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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&#39;s been a test pilot\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GwLspCkWRV\">pic.twitter.com\/GwLspCkWRV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sunny (@sunnyright) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sunnyright\/status\/2039714301221503101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/04\/02\/artemis_ii_pilot_victor_glover_i_hope_one_day_we_dont_view_this_as_black_history_its_about_human_history.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[324,6479,1154,322,28618,1094,5945,277,489,3661,7389,9847],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}