{"id":25791,"date":"2026-04-09T07:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=25791"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:34:33","slug":"christian-artemis-ii-pilot-victor-glover-reflects-on-gods-creation-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=25791","title":{"rendered":"Christian Artemis II pilot Victor Glover reflects on God’s creation from space"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Victor Glover<\/span>\u00a0(Photo: NASA)<\/span><\/p>\n

Victor Glover, the Christian US Navy captain piloting NASA\u2019s Artemis II mission, is being lauded for glorifying God in space and for his response to a question about his race. \u00a0<\/p>\n

On Easter Sunday, Glover reflected on\u00a0God’s creation and the Bible, saying in part, “As we are so far from Earth and looking back at the beauty of creation, I think, for me, one of the really important personal perspectives that I have up here is that I can really see Earth as one thing. … You have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together.”<\/p>\n

He added, “I think as we go into Easter Sunday, thinking about all the cultures all around the world – whether you celebrate it or not, whether you believe in God or not – this is an opportunity for us to remember where we are, who we are, and that we are the same thing, and that we\u2019ve got to get through this together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ahead of the April 1 mission, a reporter asked how he felt about becoming the first African American to fly around the moon. Glover replied that the mission belonged not just to \u201cblack history\u201d or “women’s history,” but to human history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Glover said he hopes that one day people will look past race. \u201cI hope we push that one day,\u201d he said in a Spectrum News video posted on X by Eric Daugherty of\u00a0RightLineNews.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about human history, humanity, not \u2018black history,\u2019 not \u2018women\u2019s history,\u2019 but that it becomes human history,\u201d Glover remarked.<\/p>\n

Artemis II is the first crewed test flight in NASA\u2019s Artemis campaign and the first to carry astronauts aboard the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. The four-person crew will spend 10 days on a loop around the moon to confirm Orion\u2019s ability to operate in deep space before next year\u2019s Artemis III mission.<\/p>\n

The Artemis IV mission is planned to land astronauts on the lunar surface, with later flights targeting Mars.<\/p>\n

Reid Wiseman is commanding the mission, with Glover serving as pilot.<\/p>\n

Christina Koch, a NASA astronaut, is the first woman to pass to the lunar distance, and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency is the first Canadian on such a voyage, noted the\u00a0Daily Citizen.<\/p>\n

An elder from Glover\u2019s church said he is praying that God\u2019s name will be glorified, according to\u00a0The Christian Chronicle.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s just a top-shelf guy and down to earth, but with all the experiences and accolades,\u201d Brent Hankins, an elder at the Southeast Church of Christ in Friendswood, Texas, the congregation about 6 miles from NASA\u2019s Space Center Houston that Glover and his wife, Dionna, call home, said.<\/p>\n

Hankins said that as a shepherd, he has come to love and support the Glover family, and to cheer and pray for them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a rush,\u201d he said of witnessing the launch. \u201cI mean, I think we all had tears in our eyes. When we got to about five seconds in the countdown, the magnitude of that was pretty overwhelming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glover was born in Pomona, California, graduated from Ontario High School in 1994 and holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in general engineering and three master\u2019s degrees. He served as a test pilot on the F\/A-18 Hornet, Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler, logging 3,500 flight hours in more than 40 aircraft, more than 400 carrier landings and 24 combat missions.<\/p>\n

He was selected in 2013 as one of eight members of NASA\u2019s 21st astronaut class and in 2018 was assigned to Crew-1 as pilot. He later served 168 days as a flight engineer on the International Space Station, or ISS. He and his wife have four children.<\/p>\n

Glover told The Christian Chronicle in a 2023 podcast interview that his belief and his professional life are \u201cinterwoven.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy career is fed by my faith,\u201d he said. \u201cAnytime I do something that\u2019s pretty risky, I pray. Before I fly, every time I fly. Definitely when you go sit on top of a rocket ship.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cIn the military, there\u2019s a saying that there are no atheists in foxholes. There aren\u2019t any on top of rockets, either.\u201d<\/p>\n

He had been in the military for 26 years, and he said that working at NASA frequently produced conversations about creation and faith.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe talk about our solar system, and I will often refer to the beauty of creation,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople hear that, and it\u2019s like a trigger word for certain folks. But that\u2019s in church and at NASA.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he doesn’t accept that faith and science are in opposition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t actually work against each other like some people like to claim that they do,\u201d he said, drawing parallels between the Big Bang account of the universe\u2019s origins and the Genesis creation narrative, saying the two trace a similar sequence.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheoretical physics has actually not said that what\u2019s in the Bible is not how the universe began,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He put the moon\u2019s age at about 4.5 billion years and said biblical genealogies do not need to conflict with that figure, since the Gospel\u2019s power lies not in chronological precision but in its message.<\/p>\n

Glover said he carried prepackaged communion supplies to the ISS and received the sacrament each week. \u201cI was able to worship in space,\u201d he said. He called the experience \u201cspecial and not special at the same time,\u201d adding that it gave him a new sense of why the ritual held its significance regardless of location.<\/p>\n

After returning to Earth, he said the view from orbit had changed his thinking about humanity\u2019s place in the universe.<\/p>\n

NASA had searched for life elsewhere and found it only on Earth, he said, a realization that made the planet seem small but profoundly important. He recalled visiting Israel, where an Arab student addressed him as \u201cbrother.\u201d \u201cWe are all brothers and sisters,\u201d Glover said.<\/p>\n

The last crewed mission to the moon was Apollo 17, which launched on Dec. 7, 1972.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 The Christian Post<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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