Victor Glover Is Set To Become The First Black Astronaut To Travel To The Moon

Victor Glover Is Set To Become The First Black Astronaut To Travel To The Moon

By Andrea Bossi ·Updated March 4, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… To date, no Black astronaut has walked on nor orbited the moon. But that is set to change this spring. NASA’s upcoming mission, Artemis II, has a target date on the horizon, which will make Captain Victor Glover the first Black astronaut to travel to the moon. Glover is assigned to pilot the flyby mission and is joined by a crew of three other astronauts, including t…

NASA To Make History With First Woman And First Black Astronaut On The Moon

The United States has been preparing to launch its first crewed mission to the Moon in nearly 50 years. A major highlight of the program is that it will include the first woman and the first Black astronaut to be part of a lunar mission crew. The mission was originally scheduled to launch in early February but has been delayed. It will carry four astronauts and is being conducted in collaboration with Germany and Saudi Arabia. The mission is mov…