NASA astronaut Victor Glover is earning widespread praise from conservatives after rejecting identity politics in favor of what he described as a shared human achievement during the historic Artemis II mission.
Glover, one of four astronauts aboard the first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years, addressed the cultural weight surrounding the mission during a pre-launch press event, particularly its designation as the first to include both a woman and a black astronaut on a lunar assignment.
While acknowledging the importance of representation, Glover made clear he sees the mission in far broader terms. “I love that, but I also hope we are pushing the other direction … that this is just — this is human history,” Glover said. “It’s the story of humanity — not black history, not women’s history.” The remarks quickly gained traction online, especially among conservative commentators.
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NASA pilot Victor Glover CLAPS back after being asked what it means to be the first black man to visit the moon: “It’s the story of humanity, not black history, not women’s history, but that it becomes human history.”
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Radio host Dana Loesch <a href="https://x.com/DLoesch/status/2040110577922584990">praised</a> Glover’s framing, calling him “ridiculously qualified” and applauding what she described as his rejection of “the commie tactic of CRT — prioritizing identity politics over all else.”
“He’s not going to allow the attempted perversion of unity to undermine how this was a real achievement for America and humanity,” Loesch added. 
Australian commentator Drew Pavlou echoed that sentiment, <a href="https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/2039962395775545634">writing</a>, “Victor Glover is a good man. In my view he is a hero of American and Western civilisation.” 
Clips of Glover’s comments were widely shared by conservative figures, with many highlighting his emphasis on unity and merit over demographic firsts. 
Glover’s perspective also aligns with a broader ethos expressed by his fellow crew members. Astronaut Christina Koch noted that progress should be measured by equal opportunity, saying, “we are at a time when everyone gets to work equally hard to achieve that dream,” while Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen emphasized that “anybody who shows up and is able to contribute something meaningful can be part of this mission.”
Born in Pomona, California, Glover graduated from Ontario High School before earning a degree in general engineering and three master’s degrees. He went on to serve as a U.S. Navy test pilot, logging more than 3,500 flight hours across over 40 aircraft, including the F/A-18 Hornet, Super Hornet, and EA-18G Growler, while completing 24 combat missions and more than 400 carrier landings. Selected by NASA in 2013, Glover later served as pilot on SpaceX’s Crew-1 mission and spent 168 days aboard the International Space Station.
Glover has also stood out for his openness about his Christian faith, which he has described as inseparable from his career in aviation and spaceflight. After returning from the International Space Station, he noted that NASA supported his ability to take communion weekly while in orbit. “I was able to worship in space,” he said, calling it an important part of his “faith walk even while I was off the planet.”
In <a href="https://christianchronicle.org/there-are-no-atheists-on-top-of-rockets/">interviews</a>, Glover has repeatedly emphasized that faith and science are not in conflict, but deeply connected. “My career is fed by my faith,” he said. “Anytime I do something that’s pretty risky, I pray — before I fly, every time I fly. Definitely when you go sit on top of a rocket ship.”
That perspective has produced some of his most widely shared one liners: “We need Jesus, whether on Earth or circling the Moon,” and, paraphrasing a military saying, “There are no atheists on top of rockets.”
For Glover, the wonder of space exploration itself points to something greater. He has spoken about referencing the “beauty of creation” in conversations with colleagues at NASA, adding that he sees no contradiction between scientific discovery and belief in God. “I believe in both,” he said. “And I don’t find them to be in conflict.”
As Artemis II pushes humanity back toward the moon, Glover’s message, grounded in faith, service, and a focus on shared human achievement, has resonated far beyond the mission itself.

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There are billion-dollar rockets, decades of engineering, and the full weight of American ambition behind Artemis II — and then there’s the toilet.
Within hours of launch, astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft ran into an issue with the capsule’s “Universal Waste Management System,” a compact, next-generation space toilet that reportedly cost more than $23 million to develop. Mission specialist Christina Koch flagged that a fan had jammed in the urine collection system, rendering half the toilet’s functionality unusable.
Engineers on the ground scrambled to troubleshoot while the crew fell back on contingency measures, including collapsible backup urinals not far removed from older, less glamorous eras of space travel.
“The toilet fan is reported to be jammed,” NASA spokesperson Gary Jordan said during live mission commentary, as engineers scrambled to diagnose the issue from the ground. Officials later clarified that while the system’s urine function was temporarily offline, “the fecal collection of the toilet … can still be used,” forcing astronauts to rely on backup measures for part of their waste management. 
The issue was ultimately resolved after a series of guided fixes from Mission Control. “Happy to report that toilet is go for use,” astronauts were told, with the added recommendation to let the system “get to operating speed before donating fluid,” a phrase that, in another context, might sound absurd, but in orbit is just another procedural necessity.
Even so, the early malfunction undercuts what NASA has touted as a major quality-of-life upgrade. The Orion toilet includes a private compartment, airflow-based waste removal, and ergonomic restraints, a far cry from the Apollo-era system that relied on bags and adhesive, once memorably described in <a href="https://www.iflscience.com/theres-a-turd-floating-through-the-air-in-1969-a-toilet-mystery-shook-the-apollo-10-mission-to-the-moon-82390">mission transcripts</a> as “a turd through the air.”
The early toilet trouble was just one of several hiccups during the crew’s first day in space,  a reminder that even the most advanced missions are not immune to everyday frustrations.
Shortly after reaching orbit, the astronauts experienced a brief communications outage with Mission Control, leaving ground teams unable to receive data from the spacecraft. “There were no issues with the vehicle itself,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said, adding that communications were quickly restored and the issue remains under investigation.
The crew also ran into a more relatable problem while setting up onboard systems: email issues.
“I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working,” commander Reid Wiseman radioed to Mission Control, prompting ground teams to step in with remote tech support to resolve the glitch.
Despite the rocky start, from toilet malfunctions to comms dropouts and email bugs, the crew quickly moved past the issues and hit a major milestone. After getting some rest, the astronauts successfully completed a critical <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/02/artemis-ii-flight-day-2-orion-completes-tli-burn-crew-begins-journey-to-the-moon/">translunar injection burn</a>, firing Orion’s main engine for nearly six minutes to send the spacecraft out of Earth’s orbit and toward the moon.
Mission Control confirmed the burn placed the crew “on trajectory to fly around the moon for the first time in 50 years,” marking a major step forward for NASA’s Artemis program.
As NASA pushes toward longer missions and a sustained lunar presence, waste management is not a luxury but a requirement. Systems must be reliable, sanitary, and sustainable, especially as future missions aim to recycle water and minimize contamination.
Still, the early issues highlights that the systems furthest from mind can rear their ugly heads, and in a mission meant to symbolize technological precision and forward momentum, even the smallest system can become briefly, the most talked-about part of the spacecraft.

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A renewed commitment to the Moon, Mars, and American leadership can define the next great era of national achievement.
With President Trump and Jared Isaacman pointing the way, the United States has a chance to lead humanity beyond Earth once again.
After decades of drift, America is finally preparing to reclaim its place at the forefront of space exploration.
For the first time in 50 years, Americans are traveling to the Moon and beyond.
No one should understate the importance of this decision to venture into the solar system beyond near-Earth orbit.
The recent announcements about the Moon, Mars, and beyond by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and the statements and executive orders of President Donald J. Trump are clear signals that America is back on track to carry freedom into space.
This is an important, indeed vital shift from the policies of the last half-century.
America met President John F. Kennedy’s challenge to go to the Moon by the end of the ‘60s — with landings beginning in 1969 and continuing through 1972. Then, the country sadly turned its back on the Moon and settled into a focus on low Earth orbit for a variety of commercial, national security, and scientific activities. During that half-century, we learned an amazing amount about how to operate close to the Earth, and our lives are impacted every minute of every day by these activities. For example, you would not have a cell phone in your pocket were it not for our innovations in low Earth orbit.
However, after the last American left the Moon in 1972, we neglected to invest in the kind of program that would have maintained the momentum of the Apollo program.
In President Trump’s first term, he indicated clearly how strongly he was committed to having America lead in space. He resurrected the National Space Council and then-Vice President Mike Pence did a great job bringing together every element of the Space community. President Trump created a Space Force dedicated to developing American military superiority in space and across the planet.
After a four-year period of neglect under President Joe Biden, the second Trump administration focused once again on pioneering in space and growing commercial opportunities in low Earth orbit.
By picking Isaacman to be the head of NASA, President Trump reached out to a unique and remarkable person. Isaacman had been a successful entrepreneur and was worth well over a billion dollars. He was also passionate about space and had spent a considerable amount to fly into space twice as a customer of SpaceX. He is the only civilian who has completed a space walk outside the International Space Station.
Because Isaacman is a visionary and an entrepreneurial manager, he has already begun to create a new, dramatically more powerful set of goals for NASA. The recent briefing outlined a permanent return to the Moon, the first voyages to preposition equipment on Mars for human development, and the high priority of building a nuclear-powered rocket (which will radically reduce travel time beyond the Moon). These are big, decisive investments in moving freedom into the solar system.
Artemis II will take four astronauts further into space than anyone has ever gone before. Soon, its larger successor, SpaceX’s Starship will revolutionize travel beyond the Earth.
As big as Artemis II is (a little more powerful than the huge Saturn rockets which carried our first manned space flights) it will be dwarfed by Starship.
As a SpaceX customer, Isaacman understands the power of Elon Musk’s determination to get things to work. The SpaceX development of reusable rockets collapsed the price of putting satellites in orbit by 90 percent. This was possibly the biggest affordability breakthrough of the last generation. Today about half of all launches in the world are SpaceX. Starship will be an even greater revolution.
Starship will launch 100 passengers or 100 tons of cargo — and will be usable repeatedly.
The Artemis II launch was the wake-up call that America is back.
This time we are not just going to visit the Moon. This time we are going to develop the Moon as usable property and learn how to get hydrogen out of the water ice which has turned out to be surprisingly abundant. Mastering in-situ resource manufacturing skills will be essential for future missions to Mars.
This time we are not just going to send clever robotic vehicles to the surface of Mars. We are going to land and begin to learn how to terraform and evolve Mars into a more hospitable, productive, and survivable environment.
There was one seeming mishap on the opening days of Artemis II, which — if looked at properly — is a sign of how far we have come.
The toilet suddenly stopped working.
Since it was a $30 million toilet, the first reaction was bad jokes and great skepticism.
Then, as the story came out, it was clear how far we had come in putting humans in space. Artemis II is the first vehicle going beyond low Earth orbit to have a toilet. It is the first time astronauts have a private room. The challenges of relieving oneself in space are enormous (think zero gravity and your imagination will do the rest). The original true pioneers in the Apollo program had astonishingly primitive systems and at times found it embarrassing.
Nevertheless, the toilet is now fixed, the mission continues, and it’s amazing how far we have come — and will go.
As Isaacman warned us, the Chinese are aggressive and serious competitors. They would like to make totalitarianism the standard across the solar system.
We are now on track to carry freedom everywhere, and Congress and the American people must rise to the occasion.
The future is now — if we are prepared to grab it.
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Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995-1999 and a candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. He is chairman of <a href="https://www.gingrich360.net/">Gingrich 360</a>.

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The Artemis II mission is officially headed to the Moon after NASA gave the go-ahead for its Orion spacecraft to leave Earth&#8217;s orbit for the next stage of its historic space mission. 
Orion fired its main engine at 7:49 p.m. EST on Thursday, sending the four astronauts aboard out of Earth’s orbit and onto a trajectory toward the Moon. The crew is set to travel around the Moon and could venture farther than any humans have since the Apollo 13 mission in 1970. 
“Nominal translunar injection burn complete. The Artemis II crew is officially on the way to the Moon,” <a href="https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2039857997556416676">said</a> NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. “America is back in the business of sending astronauts to the Moon. This time, farther than ever before.”
On Friday morning, NASA posted a picture showing the view of the astronauts from Orion as they continued toward the moon.
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As Orion departed Earth’s orbit, the four astronauts spoke from space in a broadcast from NASA to ABC and Fox News. Commander Reid Wiseman, who is leading the mission, began by giving a shout-out to the astronauts&#8217; families. 
“There was a moment about an hour ago where Mission Control Houston reoriented our spacecraft as the sun was setting behind the Earth,” he said from the spacecraft while answering questions from ABC News during the broadcast. “And I don&#8217;t know what we all expected to see in that moment, but you could see the entire globe from pole to pole. You could see Africa, Europe, and if you looked really close, you could see the Northern Lights.  It was the most spectacular moment, and it paused all four of us in our tracks.”
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Wiseman said the astronauts had a busy first few days and that the magnitude of the mission was only starting to set in. He said they had only taken two very quick naps during the first 30 hours of the mission and had only just eaten their first meal together. 
“We had been to the moon before in 1969, 1968 through 1972. It&#8217;s been a long time since we&#8217;ve been back. And I got to tell you, there is nothing normal about this.  Sending four humans 250,000 miles away is a herculean effort, and we are now just realizing the gravity of that,” he said. 
The other astronauts on the mission are pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen. 
Koch said she hoped any milestone reached by the Artemis II crew would be surpassed by future missions when asked by Fox News reporter Trace Gallagher about the historic reach of the mission. 
“We think that the journey that we&#8217;ve been on, and all of our teams have been on with us, is so much more than just one number, but we also hope that that number just keeps being exceeded and exceeded by the future crews,” she said. 
&#8220;It has been a great couple of days, just learning how to live in Orion,&#8221; Koch told Gallagher. &#8220;Living in Orion isn&#8217;t quite the same as being at home with our families, but, yes, some of the exciting things are the burns that we do.  They kick off with such an acceleration that most things that you see velcroed around that aren&#8217;t actually fastened down, all fall down to the floor of Orion.&#8221;
Koch noted that she was sleeping with her head toward the &#8220;floor&#8221; of Orion.
&#8220;There is no difference between up and down, and so, yes, I&#8217;ve been sleeping with my feet there and my head down here, and it&#8217;s very comfortable,&#8221; she said.
NASA has said that the mission has gone smoothly so far, apart from a brief loss of two-way communications between ground control and the crew due to an issue on the ground. 
Crew members are currently preparing a “lunar targeting plan,” which will guide their observations of the Moon’s surface during a six-hour window on Monday.

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NFL quarterback and former Tennessee Volunteer Josh Dobbs agrees with Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) on the University of Tennessee — but do they agree on the moon landing?
The pro football player has a degree in aerospace engineering, so the rocket scientist wasn&#8217;t missing the historic Artemis II launch Wednesday in Florida.
Ahead of takeoff, Dobbs posted on <a href="https://x.com/josh_dobbs1/status/2039327238663893107?s=20">X</a>: &#8220;We go back to the moon today. Historic&#8221; — to which Burchett offered a short response that seemed to say a lot about the congressman&#8217;s views on space.
&#8220;Back?&#8221; Burchett posted on <a href="https://x.com/timburchett/status/2039411215273783501?s=20">X</a>. And just like that, an unexpected tongue-in-cheek beef was born between sports and state.
&#8220;You can&#8217;t be one of those people,&#8221; Dobbs <a href="https://x.com/josh_dobbs1/status/2039454338003665390?s=20">replied</a> to Burchett.
Does Burchett really buy into the conspiracy that the United States has never actually made it to the moon?
No! Following the fun exchange, the congressman reminded his constituents that it was April Fools&#8217; Day.
&#8220;Breaking: Check the calendar. It was sarcasm,&#8221; Burchett <a href="https://x.com/timburchett/status/2039510661009399937?s=20">said</a>.
So Dobbs, who is affectionately called the &#8220;Passtronaut,&#8221; is united with his fellow Vols fan in bringing attention to how important the Artemis II moon mission is.
Wednesday&#8217;s successful launch is sending the first crew back to the moon in more than 50 years. The spaceship will circle around the moon before returning to Earth.
Dobbs ended the online back-and-forth with a picture of Artemis II blasting through the atmosphere, inviting Rep. Burchett to the next NASA launch.
&#8220;Tim Burchett I’ll see you at the next one,&#8221; Dobbs <a href="https://x.com/josh_dobbs1/status/2039478858148176228?s=20">said</a>.
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Why is an NFL player so enthralled with space? Dobbs majored in aerospace engineering at Tennessee, where he graduated with a 4.0 on top of the grueling Southeastern Conference football schedule.
In 2020, Dobbs interned with NASA at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where he got to witness a SpaceX rocket launch.
&#8220;I really felt the nervousness watching the countdown, knowing what those astronauts have gone through to get to this moment,&#8221; Dobbs told <a href="https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/jags-qb-josh-dobbs-was-at-nasa-spacex-launch-as-nasa-intern">NBC Sports</a> after the launch. &#8220;Being able to see the teamwork involved in preparation for this launch was incredible for me. It&#8217;s so much like a football team — you see how everyone doing their job fits together and makes something great happen. That&#8217;s what I really appreciated about the experience.&#8221;
The &#8220;Passtronaut&#8221; certainly lives up to his name. Dobbs started a <a href="https://www.astrordinarydobbsfoundation.org/">foundation</a> called &#8220;The ASTROrdinary Dobbs Foundation, Inc.&#8221; The organization&#8217;s slogan: &#8220;The Sky Is Not The Limit.&#8221;
Through his non-profit, he&#8217;s raising funds for youth-focused STEM initiatives and educational programs across Rep. Burchett&#8217;s state of Tennessee and beyond.
Despite a busy schedule, the 31-year-old has kept up with the Artemis program for years, telling NASA back in 2020 that he couldn&#8217;t wait for Americans to land on the moon &#8230; again.
&#8220;Obviously been a while since we’ve gone to the moon and obviously there’s a lot of reasons behind that. We were building the International Space Station, we were doing other missions. But for that to be a goal and just to see how that goal is basically the framework, the support to the next goal, the springboard to going to Mars, I think it’s extremely exciting,&#8221; Dobbs <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/welcome-to-rocket-ranch/episode-21-nfl-quarterback-rocket-arm-and-mind/">said</a>.
Artemis II is expected to land April 10.

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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) cheered the launch of Artemis II, praising American technology, innovation, and space exploration despite the fact that he voted against the measure that provided nearly $10 billion in funding for that project and future endeavors.
Kelly, a former astronaut himself, shared a video of his comments as the Artemis II mission got underway on Wednesday.
&#8220;Artemis II is proof that only in the United States of America can we aim for the stars and actually reach them. Efforts like these push technology and our country forward, together,&#8221; he captioned the clip.
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&#8220;In later years, we&#8217;re going to send Americans back to the surface of the moon, hopefully ahead of the Chinese, and establish a lunar presence with people on the surface of the moon,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s inspiring, but it also pushes technology forward. And I think that&#8217;s really an important thing for the American people to understand.&#8221;
&#8220;This, it does take a lot of resources to do programs like this, but it is really only here in the United States of America that we&#8217;re able to marshal those resources, that technical talent, the engineers and scientists we need to do this — to do hard things — and when we do hard things, we get a lot out of it.&#8221;
Months earlier, however, Kelly voted against the spending bill championed by President Donald Trump — the &#8220;One Big Beautiful Bill&#8221; — that secured nearly $10 billion in funding for the Artemis II project and future space exploration.
The One Big Beautiful Bill marked a reversal in course from President Donald Trump&#8217;s initial budget proposal for fiscal year 2026, in which funding for NASA would be significantly scaled back after Artemis III and would cancel plans for the Gateway lunar outpost entirely. The final bill instead directed $9.9 billion to fund space exploration, including Artemis IV, Gateway, and more — and was backed by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
&#8220;The moon mission MUST happen in President Trump’s term or else China will beat us there and build the first moonbase,” Cruz said in an X post — and then in a confirmation hearing for NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/tqejrlbfB84?t=1862">Cruz declared</a>, “We are not headed for the next space race. It is already here. … I am hard-pressed to think of a more catastrophic mistake we could make in space than saying to communist China, ‘The Moon is yours.’&#8221;
Still, Kelly repeatedly <a href="https://ktar.com/arizona-news/big-beautiful-bill-kelly-gallego/5723744/">voiced his opposition</a> to the &#8220;One Big Beautiful Bill&#8221; even after the NASA funding was included.
Despite supporting increased NASA funding during negotiations, Kelly ultimately <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2025/07/01/how-arizona-senators-mark-kelly-ruben-gallego-voted-one-big-beautiful-bill/84432101007/?gnt-cfr=1&amp;gca-cat=p&amp;gca-uir=false&amp;gca-epti=z11xx54p119750c119750e1173xxv11xx54&amp;gca-ft=257&amp;gca-ds=sophi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted against</a> the bill that <a href="https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/trump-megabill-includes-billions-for-artemis-iss-moving-a-space-shuttle-to-texas-and-more/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">provided it</a>.