Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, when asked about his achievement as a “black man,” pointed to his American flag, showing children that progressive ideology and groupthink are not pathways to success.
Despite persistent media interest in the color of his skin, the 50-year-old NASA astronaut focused on his crew’s historic April 6 spaceflight—the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from Earth.
Glover explained during a recent town hall with students from M.S. 255 Salk School of Science: “I think one of the reasons we were as successful as we were is that we spent a lot of time thinking about us and not me individually.”
When an 11-year-old student named Ameya asked, “How did it feel to be the first person of color to fly to or around the moon?”, Glover replied: “I will tell you one of the things about swinging for the fence and trying to hit a home run when the game is on the line is if you think about that, that can add pressure and make you not go up there and play your best game.”
