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Victor J. Glover        

NASA Astronaut-Captain, U.S. Navy

Victor J. Glover, Jr. was selected as an astronaut in 2013 while serving as a Legislative Fellow in the United States Senate. He is currently serving as pilot and second-in-command on the Crew-1 SpaceX Crew Dragon, named Resilience, which launched November 15, 2020. When Glover arrived at the International Space Station in November, he settled in for a six-month stay to become the first Black astronaut to live and work on ISS for an extended period of time.

Before becoming a NASA astronaut, Glover was a commander and test pilot in the U.S. Navy, where he flew 2,000 hours in over 40 aircraft, 24 combat missions. Glover got his bachelors in general engineering from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California.

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A child's dream to 'drive' a space shuttle propels him toward a historic NASA mission
When a 10-year-old Victor Glover first saw the launch of a space shuttle on television, he was "totally captivated by the machine," he says. "I thought, 'Wow, I would love to drive that.'" Fast forward 27 years to 2013. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Victor Glover, a test pilot with combat experience over Iraq, is far removed from aircraft carriers, fighter jets and boyhood dreams of traveling into space. He's on Capitol Hill on a temporary assignment as a legislative fellow for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

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