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Victor Glover Is About to Become the First Black Astronaut to Fly Around the Moon
The 10-day systems test will check Orion’s life-support, navigation and communications before NASA’s next lunar landing mission.
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Victor Glover will be first African American to travel to the Moon's vicinity
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The four astronauts making NASA’s next lunar leap bear little resemblance to the Apollo era. The Americans who blazed the trail to the moon more than half a century ago were white men chosen for their military test pilot experience. This first Artemis crew includes a woman, a person of color and a Canadian, products of a more diversified astronaut corps. None of them were alive during NASA’s storied Apollo program tha…
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HOUSTON, Texas – An astronaut with strong ties to North Texas is preparing to pilot the historic Artemis II mission. Victor Glover Jr., who resides in Houston with his family, will become the first black man to orbit the Moon as a mission pilot. We talked to his father, Victor Glover Sr., who lives in Prosper, in 2021, when Glover also made history by becoming the first black astronaut to complete a long-term stay aboard the International Space …
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