Victor Glover Just Went To The Moon, He Said When He Came Back About God And Love Is The True Sign In A World Full Of Noise
One of the 4 astronauts on the Artemis II crew is a devout Christian. What he says after traveling farther from Earth than anyone else in 53 years cuts across every headline, every algorithm, and every feed. In an almost entirely noisy media environment, this is a signal.
Victor Glover is a Navy test pilot, F/A-18 fighter pilot, military veteran with 24 missions in Iraq, and NASA astronaut. He has 3 master’s degrees, more than 3,000 flight hours in more than 40 types of aircraft, and 400 airline landings. On April 1, 2026, he became the first black astronaut to fly to the moon.
He attends the Southeast Church of Christ in Friendwood, Texas, not far from the Johnson Space Center. He brought a Bible to work. During his first space flight in 2020, he arranged for communion cups to be delivered to the International Space Station. He once told the Christian Chronicle, “There are no atheists on rockets.”
He has been holding this position since April 3rd, 2 days after the launch. He carried it throughout the 10-day mission, the lunar flight, when his colleague Jeremy Hansen named the crater after their late boss’s wife, 40 minutes of silence on the far side of the moon, and the descent. When he finally stood in front of the cameras on April 11 at Ellington Field in Houston, this is what came out.
I’ll keep it short because I, I don’t, I’m afraid to start talking. I still haven’t processed what we just did, and I’m afraid to even try. When this started on April 3rd, I wanted to thank God publicly. And I want to thank God again. Because it’s bigger than my challenge to try to explain what we’ve been through, thanks. For seeing what we saw, doing what we did, and being with who I was. It’s too big to just be in one body. And I wanted to thank our families for everything they just said. Big words, big words, big words. I love you. But not just those five beautiful ladies with cocoa skin right there. All of you. And I want to thank our leadership. And it has changed since we were here in April of 2023. But the qualities have not changed. And we are lucky to be in this organization at this time together. So I will sit down. Thank you again for our service in the air of this center and our ride home from San Diego. And I love you. Thank you.
On Easter Sunday, as the moon circled, CBS News asked if she had a message to share. He wasn’t ready, but he answered: “Guys, you’re talking to us because we’re in a spaceship that’s really far from Earth. But you’re in a space called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe, in the universe. Maybe the distance from you makes you think that what we’re doing is special. But we’re just especially far away from you.” I’m trying to tell you.
Then, just before the Orion spacecraft entered a 40-minute communications blackout on the far side of the moon, he said: “As we continue to unlock the mysteries of the universe, I would like to remind you of one of the most important mysteries on Earth.” And that’s love. and that is loving your neighbor as you love yourself As we prepare to go out on the radio communications, we can still hear your love from Earth And to all of you out there on Earth and around the world, we love you from the moon.
Glover was born in Pomona, California. His mother is a bookkeeper. His father is a retired police officer. He played quarterback and running back in high school, earned his engineering degree at Cal Poly, and met his wife Dionna there. They have been married for over 20 years and have 4 daughters: Genesis, Maya, Joia and Corinne. The “5 beautiful ladies” he mentioned on the platform were Dionna and the girls, sitting in the front.
NASA aerospace engineer Naia Butler-Craig met Glover before the mission and told him she was going the same way. He recalled his response: “Many people worry about making the right choice.
This post was written by Rebecca Simon, author of Let Go, Trust God.
