This Sunday, Nov. 15, at 7:27pm EST, Victor Glover will be soaring into space, piloting The SpaceX Crew-1 mission. He is knocking out several firsts with this flight. Glover is the first Black person in space since Alvin Drew in 2007, the first Black astronaut to fly for SpaceX, and the first to move into the International Space Station for an extended stay. There have been other Black astronauts to visit the station while it was under construction, however they were members of space shuttle crews and their stays were brief. Glover told MyNews13 that he's over the moon about the mission.
"The opportunity to fly to space at all is just truly amazing, but then to be able to do it on a spacecraft that is made by this great company SpaceX, it's an honor, it's just icing on the cake," Glover told Florida Today, "I'm really excited to be able to fly on Crew Dragon."
Glover, along with his crewmembers, Shannon Walker, Michael Hopkins, and Soichi Noguchi from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, will be on the first operational flight on SpaceX's Crew Dragon on Sunday from the Kennedy Space Center. This will be a groundbreaking mission for NASA as well. It is the first fully-crewed mission with SpaceX using its Falcon 9 rocket to lift four astronauts to the ISS.
