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Shooting for the Moon
Alumni astronaut Victor Glover recently helped set a new milestone in the history of human space travel.
By Robyn Kontra Tanner
Photo courtesy of NASA
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Astronaut Victor Glover watches the moon outside the window of the Orion capsule as he and his crewmates complete the first crewed lunar flyby since 1972.
In April, alumnus and astronaut Victor Glover launched into space as part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, piloting humanity’s first visit to the moon in more than 50 years. The trip took the crew on a wide orbital path around the moon, which brought them farther from Earth than humans have ever been before. “We still call amazing things that humans do moonshots,” he said. “Now our generation is going to get to have one of our own.”
Read Cal Poly Magazine’s recent interview with Glover as he prepared for his historic mission, and watch him answer questions from fellow Mustangs in the AMA video below.
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