How astronauts prepare for the unknown in space: An interview with NASA's Victor GloverBy Lloyd Coombes published November 23, 2021
Space.com sat down with NASA astronaut Victor Glover about the fear of spaceflight, as well as launching in a pandemic.
NASA astronaut Victor Glover celebrates after returning to Earth on SpaceX's Crew-1 Crew Dragon capsule Resilience with a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico near Panama City, Florida on May 2, 2021. (Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)(...)
Space.com: But what does it take to be the man that was spacewalking for around six hours earlier this year?Glover: You know, there are just things about living in what we call the ICE environment — isolated, confined, extreme environments. People who winter over in Antarctica, people who live on submarines, or deploy in our military out into the middle of nowhere, living in tents for months on end, fighting in combat. Those things require a certain type of mentality. And so, you’ve got to have mettle.
There’s a lot of NASA's research into resilience and how to quantify it, how to find it when looking for candidates, but also in your workforce that you have.
How do you instill it? What things do you do to highlight it and then reinforce it? That’s a big one. There are probably tons of other things, but I would say that [mettle] is one of the most important. Resilience is a big part of it. (...)
https://www.space.com/how-astronauts-prepare-for-unknown-nasa-victor-glover-interviewBlack astronaut says lunar mission will be ‘major accomplishment’ in American historyMay 19, 2023, 9:24 PM GMT+2 By Claretta Bellamy
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NBC News: Artemis II is the first moon mission since 1972. How has the training process changed for a mission to the moon in 2023 versus back then in 1972?Glover: There are flight controllers from 23 or more nations, what we call the Artemis Accords, that are agreeing to peacefully explore the solar system and the moon. But the basics are very similar: learning about the spaceship, learning about the mission and the trajectory, knowing what the crew can affect, what the crew can do — crew controls and then knowing the backup systems and knowing how to get out of challenging situations, and then working with the team that’s going to fly the mission from the ground.
This mission is very similar to the Apollo 8 mission. The difference is this crew is made up of an international partnership between the U.S. and Canada. And our Artemis missions will continue to be an international partnership, as well as a public-private partnership. Partnership is going to be an increasing part of how we explore space, the moon and eventually onto Mars for the foreseeable future. (...)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-astronaut-says-lunar-mission-will-major-accomplishment-american-rcna85334‘There are no atheists … on top of rockets’JUNE 14, 2023 B.T. Irwin
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Victor Glover: You know, my faith and my science and operational and military career are interwoven. I’ve been in the military for 26 years, and I have done these increasingly challenging things. And I would say that all of that is built on a foundation of faith.
My career is fed by my faith, and you know, anytime I do something that’s pretty risky, I pray — before I fly, every time I fly. I fly airplanes a few times a week. Definitely when you go sit on top of a rocket ship.
In the military, there’s a saying that there are no atheists in foxholes. There aren’t any on top of rockets, either, I would think. (...)
https://christianchronicle.org/there-are-no-atheists-on-top-of-rockets/https://twitter.com/Astro_Cady/status/1785328163490300301https://twitter.com/NASAaero/status/17165402640077500802)
🎥 Wow, message from NASA astronaut Vic Glover, pilot for #ArtemisII, for all visitors at #ESAOpenDay at ESTEC 2024! Thanks, Vic! 😎
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National Air and Space Museum @airandspace Post 4:34 AM · Feb 15, 2025
A champion of unity and education, Victor Glover transcends his role as a space exploration leader.
He shared his knowledge about astronaut life in our Air and Space Live Chat. Read about Glover’s advice and more on our blog: http://s.si.edu/3uZfAV3 #BlackHistoryMonth
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1890605702453870622
Wątek: Victor Jerome 'IKE' Glover, Jr. - 30.04.1976 (Przeczytany 708 razy)