Victor Glover is currently hurtling toward the moon at 25,000 miles per hour as part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, but before he was an astronaut, he was a defensive back for Cal Poly’s football team and a member of the Mustangs’ wrestling team.
Glover, 49, already made history as the first Black man to live for an extended period of time on the International Space Station in 2021. Now, he is set to become the first Black man to travel around the moon when Artemis II conducts its lunar flyby on Monday, April 6.
After graduating from Cal Poly in 1999, where he majored in general engineering as...
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