Victor Glover is helping make history aboard Artemis II. NASA’s first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years launched April 1 with Glover, Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen aboard Orion, and on April 6. the crew became the farthest humans have ever traveled from Earth, surpassing the Apollo 13 record set in 1970, by reaching about 252,755 miles from Earth during the mission’s lunar flyby.
But one of the mission’s most talked-about moments wasn’t about distance. It was about what Glover said while looking back at Earth from deep space.
During a live interview, Glover offered a strikingly faith-forward reflection on creation, human worth and the planet below.
“When I read the Bible and I look at all the amazing things that were done for us … you’re on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe and the cosmos,” he said.
He said the view from space changes how Earth looks.
“As we are so far from Earth and looking at the beauty of creation, I think, for me, one of the really important personal perspectives that I have up here is I can really see the Earth as one thing,” Glover said. “We’re all one people.”
He kept going, describing Earth as rare and fragile against the backdrop of space.
“In all of this emptiness … you have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together,” Glover said. “We’ve gotta get through this together.”
