VJ 'IKE' Glover, Jr. - 30.04.1976

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Victor Jerome 'IKE' Glover, Jr. jest 565 człowiekiem w kosmosie.
Jego pierwszy lot kosmiczny trwał 167d 06h 29m 26s.
Wykonał 4 spacery kosmiczne, które trwały łącznie 26h 07m.
Jest pierwszym czarnoskórym astronautą, który odbył długotrwały lot kosmiczny.

03.04.2023 NASA ogłosiła skład załogi Artemis II, w skład której wchodzi astronauta.

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/victor-j-glover/
https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/victor-j-glover/biography

http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/glover_victor.htm
https://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/g/glover-v.php

https://mek.kosmo.cz/bio/usa/00565.htm
https://www.kozmo-data.sk/kozmonauti/glover-victor-jerome.html
https://www.astronaut.ru/register/514.htm
https://www.april12.eu/usaastron/glover565ru.html  30.08.1976

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_J._Glover
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Glover

https://www.visithoustontexas.com/blog/post/visit-houston-conversation-with-astronauts-glover-hopkins/
MwN https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=5264.msg185078#msg185078
A II https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=3295.msg191110#msg191110

A Conversation Between Tom Cruise and Victor Glover About the Body in Space


Meet Artemis Team Member Victor Glover


NASA Astronaut Victor Glover Reflects on Juneteenth


Meet Victor Glover, Crew-1 Pilot


The Color of Space: The Series - Ep. 2, Victor Glover


https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1785323774859993308

30 avril
Joyeux anniversaire (47) à @AstroVicGlover 🎂🎂🎂
(1 vol pour l'instant : Crew 4 / Expedition 64-65 soit 167 jours 06heures 29 minutes dans l'espace dont 26h07 dans le vide spatial en 4 EVA - vienT d'être sélectionné comme pilote d'Artemis II)

https://twitter.com/spacemen1969/status/1652555128417951752
ISS 2021 https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=4352.msg163611#msg163611
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How astronauts prepare for the unknown in space: An interview with NASA's Victor Glover
By 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)

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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-interview

Black astronaut says lunar mission will be ‘major accomplishment’ in American history
May 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/1785328163490300301
https://twitter.com/NASAaero/status/1716540264007750080


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🎥 Wow, message from NASA astronaut Vic Glover, pilot for #ArtemisII, for all visitors at #ESAOpenDay at ESTEC 2024! Thanks, Vic! 😎

https://twitter.com/esa/status/1842934123952013419


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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

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U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute 1:00 PM · Apr 18, 2026
Proceedings Photo of the Week: Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Daryl Caudle meets Navy Captain and Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover at Johnson Space Center in Houston, 16 April 2026. U.S. Navy (John Bellino)

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/2045457515345821840

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Association of Space Explorers @ASE_Astronauts 9:00 PM · Apr 30, 2026
#ASEspotlight: Victor Glover💫
Earlier this month, ASE member @AstroVicGlover gazed out of Integrity's window during the lunar flyby of the recent #ArtemisII mission.
Fun fact: He was awarded the Perchatka during the #ASE34 Congress in 2023!
Happy 50th birthday, Ike! 🎉

https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/2049926865276596486

Cady Coleman @Astro_Cady 2:05 PM · Apr 30, 2026
🥳🎂Please join me in extending warm birthday wishes to @AstroVicGlover - pilot of #Artemis2 - just back from a historic mission around the #Moon! Here's to many more amazing orbits!💫

https://twitter.com/Astro_Cady/status/2049822444500693488

Nasdaq Exchange @NasdaqExchange 11:10 PM · Apr 30, 2026
Happy birthday to @NASA Artemis II Pilot @AstroVicGlover!

https://twitter.com/NasdaqExchange/status/2049959570492080611

Stephane SEBILE @spacemen1969 12:05 AM · Apr 30, 2026
30 avril
Joyeux anniversaire (50) à @AstroVicGlover 🎂🎂🎂
(2 vols : Crew 4 / Expedition 64-65 et pilote d'Artemis II soit 176 jours 08heures 01 minute dans l'espace dont 26h07 dans le vide spatial en 4 EVA)

https://twitter.com/spacemen1969/status/2049610930149855714

From the Flight Deck to the Moon - Navy Astronaut Victor Glover
United States Navy Band

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Pojawia się coraz więcej zdjęć z zakończonej misji Artemis II.

Manuel Mazzanti @manumazzanti 2:09 AM · May 6, 2026
Imagínense poder tener una foto así.
@AstroVicGlover y en la ventana, chiquita, la Tierra.

https://twitter.com/manumazzanti/status/2051816592590196773

Artemis 2 astronaut advocates for equatorial lunar landings
by Jeff Foust July 22, 2026


Astronaut Victor Glover observes the moon during the Artemis 2 mission. Credit: NASA

WASHINGTON — The pilot of the Artemis 2 mission says NASA’s return to the moon should start with human landings in less challenging equatorial regions rather than go directly to the south pole.

Speaking at the NASA Exploration Science Forum at Ames Research Center on July 21, Victor Glover made a plea to NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman to reconsider plans to have the first Artemis crewed landings go to the lunar south pole because of the difficulties of accessing that region.

Asked in an extended discussion with conference attendees about his preferred landing site for the first crewed landing of the Artemis campaign, Glover emphasized the importance of “familiar” locations like those closer to the lunar equator used by the Apollo missions more than half a century ago.

“If you want to go fast, go familiar,” he said. “We want to get to the surface. If we want to land soon, familiar, daylight, equator.”

One reason he preferred equatorial regions is the ease of getting there and back. NASA’s plans for landings at the lunar south pole had involved the use of a near-rectilinear halo orbit, a highly elliptical orbit that would also have been used by the Gateway. However, that orbit would have required astronauts to spend up to a week on the lunar surface before Orion or the Gateway would be in position for them to depart.

Glover cited a hypothetical case of an astronaut who suffers a burst appendix during an Artemis landing mission. “If it ruptures on landing day, you’re stuck for a week. That’s a big deal to me, and I don’t like that plan,” he said. “The equator gives me opportunity to save that person.”

Polar landing sites pose other challenges. The sun is low on the horizon there, casting long shadows that can hamper landings and also make it difficult to walk or drive in the direction of the sun.

“You think driving home into the sunset is challenging? Imagine being on another celestial body and going from this room to low sun angle in a suit,” he said.

He advocated for a more stepwise approach that would start with landings closer to the equator to build up experience toward polar landings, comparing it to test flight programs that incrementally expand the envelope in speed and altitude. “You have a process for accepting risk more and more, but also retiring it right,” he said.

“I think we need to be realistic and work our way to the south pole, and maybe not try to go there first,” he said.

While the lunar south pole has been the target of Artemis crewed missions for several years, in large part because of the potential for ice deposits in permanently shadowed craters, Glover’s comments are not the first time an agency official has suggested that alternative sites closer to the equator could be considered.

“We have opened up the performance specification for the early landing missions in as many ways as we can,” Amit Kshatriya, NASA’s associate administrator, said during a session of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in March.

That included different orbits around the moon from which the landing would be staged, as well as other, unspecified constraints, “to make it as agile as possible” and give the landing providers freedom to propose alternative approaches.

“We’re not yet giving up on the south pole, and I don’t think we will,” he added. “We need to challenge ourselves and we need to go to some place we’ve never been.”

NASA has since announced it will no longer pursue the lunar Gateway and will consider other orbits for lunar landings on at least the initial Artemis missions. At the Artemis 3 crew announcement event in June, for example, SpaceX said its revised approach involves its Starship lunar lander docking with Orion in low Earth orbit and then going to the moon, entering a low lunar orbit rather than a near-rectilinear halo orbit.

During a panel discussion at the NASA Exploration Science Forum shortly before Glover spoke, Jacob Bleacher, chief exploration scientist in NASA’s Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate, said the Artemis 4 and 5 missions are still planned for the south polar region of the moon, but added that specific landing locations will depend on the capabilities of the landers.

“We don’t know exactly what the lander capabilities will be as they’re developing, so we’re keeping that trade space open until we have that information in hand and can really narrow down exactly where we’re going,” he said.

Glover said his desire to land first in equatorial regions was just his opinion, and one that had not found an audience within the agency. “That’s just me, and nobody’s asking me those questions,” he said.

“I think the way we’re attacking it is going to have some challenges,” he said later. “So, if Jared listens to this recording, I mean, I had this conversation with your predecessor, and we should talk.”
https://spacenews.com/artemis-2-astronaut-advocates-for-equatorial-lunar-landings/