It is no wonder that Victor Glover, Jr. was chosen as the pilot of the NASA Artemis II mission around the moon. The hero is a girl Dad with four daughters. Did I mention “Hero”? Four daughters? Heat shields are easy.

When the brains at NASA told Victor Glover, Jr. that he would be spending about ten days in space with three other astronauts in a confined space, he probably said that sounded like a vacay. Does he worry about hitting the atmosphere at the right angle for the heat shield? He navigates girl hormones all the time. Getting the correct angle for the heat shield is cake.

I joke, of course. The families of all four heroes are holding their collective breaths until the astronauts are back at Johnson Space Center, medically evaluated and holding them once again. From USA Today:

In a matter of hours, the Artemis II astronauts will make a highly-anticipated homecoming after becoming the first humans to fly on a moon mission in more than 50 years.

The crew has already flow farther in space than any humans ever have, reaching more than a quarter-million miles from Earth while encountering sights of the moon’s far side never seen in person.

Now, the reentry into Earth’s atmosphere and the impending splashdown off the coast of California is perhaps the most dangerous leg of the 10-day mission. Not only will the astronauts be relying on a heat shield to protect them from a blazing hot upper atmosphere, but they’ll be rocketing at dizzying speeds of 25,000 mph before parachutes deploy to slow them

While all the space explorers have been stellar, Mr. Glover, Jr. has been admirably quotable:

My family on the ground is definitely in my thoughts and in my prayers, and on my socks.

As we’ve grown our family, that’s really when I’ve started to develop a real, true appreciation of my own faith and not just the academic.

Before I go and even get in an airplane to go on a flight, I say a prayer, and I always think about my family.

“My career is fed by my faith, and you know, anytime I do something that’s pretty risky, I pray.” -Astronaut Victor Glover, piloting NASA’s 10-day Artemis II mission around the moon. He and his wife Dionna Odom met in college and have 4 daughters: Genesis, Maya, Joia, Corinne. pic.twitter.com/oA4ydSE8z8

— Babs Cubana (@Babs_CubanaUSA) April 3, 2026

God assigned me a few really important things: this life, this vessel, but also my wife and that relationship, the two of us becoming one and then the family that we’ve grown with our four daughters.

He has given multiple fantabulous quotes about being a Black man and NASA astronaut, but I thought these quotes about his family were more apt. Have you heard about his daughter, Maya?

Victor Glover isn’t just a regular dad, he’s a cool dad.

The NASA astronaut is currently piloting the Orion spacecraft on the Artemis II lunar mission, and his daughter Maya L. Glover recently celebrated that accomplishment with a video that’s since gone viral.

In a video posted Sunday on TikTok and Instagram, Maya Glover is seen unzipping a hooded sweatshirt to reveal a T-shirt printed with an image of her dad. She then steps back from the camera, dancing before playfully losing track of the moves.

“When your dad successfully pilots Artemis II halfway to the moon… & you forget the dance,” she wrote over the clip, set to Korn’s “Freak On a Leash.”

The video quickly took off, racking up more than 9.3 million views and more than 1.7 million likes on TikTok alone, as of Monday.

In the caption, Maya Glover wrote, “Supra astra, ad lunam,” Latin for “Above the stars, to the moon.”

Dayum. Love it!

I loved Maya Glover’s (daughter of Artemis II pilot Victor Glover) celebration when Artemis II got halfway to the moon.

She chose an iconic song from an iconic band to celebrate— Korn “Freak on a Leash.”

Great choice Maya!!! pic.twitter.com/QO0YCFSRBR

— Mr. Christopher (@iamalmostlegend) April 8, 2026

I would talk ill about how the children of famous folk usually act, but y’all already know how gruesome that is.

Here Maya is with her older sister Genesis. They talk about their folks being CalPoly graduates and their relationship.

Credit to their Mother, Dionna Glover. Being a Navy wife is hard, I hear. Being a pilot’s wife is harder. Being a NASA wife is super hard. Raising four girls is damn hard.

NASA's Artemis 2 mission w/ conclude w/ the astronauts returning to Earth 2day at 7:07 PM CST. Use link to watch LIVE as the Orion spacecraft splashes in the Pacific Ocean (San Diego, CA). Coverage begins at 5:30 PM Central.https://t.co/FOlgT8G7xv#STEM

— Merrillville Community School Corporation (@piratenation219) April 10, 2026

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