Victor Glover, Jr., is best known for being the first Black astronaut to travel to the Moon. In April 2026 he was the pilot of Artemis II, the first crewed lunar mission since 1972. During the voyage, he and his crewmates set the record for the farthest distance traveled by humans in space, 406,771 km (252,756 miles). Glover’s first spaceflight was as the pilot on the SpaceX Crew-1 mission (2020–21), which was the first fully operational flight of the Dragon spacecraft.
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