Artemis II
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Artemis II was a crewed flyby of the Moon. It is the only crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. It was the first crewed flight of the NASA-led Artemis program, the first crewed
Earthset, by astronaut Christina Koch aboard Integrity
Official crew portrait, clockwise from left: Koch, Glover, Hansen and WisemanArtemis program← Artemis IArtemis III →
SLS core stage for Artemis II lifted into High Bay 2 of the Vehicle Assembly Building shortly after stacking operations began in December 2024
Artemis I heat shield showing damage after recovery
Victor Glover
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Victor Jerome Glover Jr. is a United States Navy captain, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. A former F/A‑18 pilot and graduate of the United States Air Force Test Pilot School, in 2020, he piloted the f
Artemis II
…crewed lunar flight of the Apollo program, while its free-return trajectory resembled that flown by Apollo 13 in 1970. Among the four crew members, Victor Glover became the only person of color, Christina Koch the only woman, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen the only person not from the United States…
Glover in 2023
Glover and his crewmates inside the SpaceX Crew-1 capsule during its approach to the ISS in 2020
Victor Glover at Congressional Medal of Honor ceremony at the NASA Johnson Space Center, August 28, 2026