According to NASA, Victor Glover, Jr. was selected as an astronaut in 2013 while serving as a Legislative Fellow in the United States Senate. Before being assigned as pilot of NASA’s Artemis II mission around the Moon, he served as pilot of the Crew-1 Dragon spacecraft, named Resilience, which flew to the International Space Station.

The crew of NASA's Artemis II mission is about to make spaceflight history as they approach the moon for the first time in more than half-a-century.

NASA's Artemis II mission completes a critical engine burn, propelling the Orion spacecraft and its four-person crew out of Earth orbit toward the moon.

NASA has temporarily lost contact with the four astronauts aboard the Artemis II mission as the Orion spacecraft passes behind the moon, a predicted communications blackout that marks a critical phase of the historic crewed lunar flyby.

Amid ongoing toilet trouble, the Artemis II astronauts reflected on the wonder of sailing through deep space to the moon.

Artemis II will test NASA’s crew capabilities in deep space and gather more information that could ultimately help send astronauts to Mars.

NASA's Artemis II crew launched on the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, sending four astronauts around the moon aboard the Orion spacecraft.

This marks the first time NASA has allowed each crew member to fly with a personal iPhone for documentation purposes, moving beyond previous limited or unofficial uses of smartphones in space.