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Victor Glover Becomes First Black Astronaut On NASA’s Extended Space Station

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Victor Glover Becomes First Black Astronaut On NASA’s Extended Space Station

In a move that marks history, Navy commander and test pilot Victor J. Glover is now the first Black astronaut to live aboard NASA’s International Space Station.

Commander Glover and three other astronauts left on Sunday in a capsule and will live on the station for the next six months.

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NASA wrote,

“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 training for Crew-1, the first post-certification mission of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft – the second crewed flight for that vehicle – and a long duration mission aboard the International Space Station.

Glover and his crewmates are working closely with SpaceX to develop their new spacecraft systems, which will provide roundtrip crew transportation services to the International Space Station and, along with Boeing’s Starliner, return the ability to launch humans into space from United States soil.”

NASA initially introduced Black astronauts in the astronaut program in the 1960s. Ed Dwight who was an Air Force test pilot at the time became the first astronaut candidate.

 

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