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The pilot of the pioneering space mission Artemis II is a committed Christian.
Victor J Glover is a member of the Church of Christ, a grouping of conservative Protestant congregations mostly found in the USA.
In 2021, Evangelicals Now reported that he had taken communion cups and a Bible up to the International Space Station.
Now, he is part of a trailblazing team of four aiming to go round the moon – the first time humans have done so since 1972. And he and his crewmates are expected to reach a distance of 252,799 miles from Earth, about 4,000 miles (6,400 km) further than anyone has gone before.
Glover will also “make history as the first person of colour to travel beyond low Earth orbit,” US news organisation ABC reports.
“Ten… nine… eight…”
In 2023 he told American magazine Christianity Today that as the famous countdown “Ten… nine… eight…” proceeds, he will be praying the Lord’s Prayer.
“I know that God can use us for his purposes,” Glover said at the time. “When Jesus was teaching the disciples to pray, he used that very specific prayer that we all know, ‘Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name …’ So, listen, I am a messenger of his kingdom; his will be done.”