I have to say, it's pretty awesome that we've had two amazing events for American pride within less than a week. It must be our country's 250th anniversary or something.
Less than two months after American men and women brought home hockey gold from Italy (as well as the gold medal parahockey team to boot), the country watched in amazement as Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on a mission to the moon. We hadn't even come down from that high when news broke on Easter morning that US Special Forces had rescued both pilots of an F-15 that had been shot down in Iran -- without a single American casualty.
Talk about your Easter blessings.
Of course, just as the miserable leftist media tried to make everyone as miserable as they are regarding the rescue mission, they had tried to do the same with the Artemis II mission. ABC News, for example, reduced the entire event to identity politics. Because, of course, they did.
Artemis astronaut Victor Glover, however, wasn't having any of that. When the media demanded that he comment on being a 'black astronaut,' Glover promptly shot back, saying that the mission was not women's history or black history; it was history for all of humanity.
NASA astronaut Victor Glover shuts down a reporter trying to bait him into a DEI answer. His response: "I hope one day we can look at this as human history, not black history or women's history."
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld) April 2, 2026
Perfect answer. No division. Just facts.
More of this please 👏 pic.twitter.com/4vK66ZpOug
If I hadn't already admired Glover for his service to America as a Navy pilot, Air Force test pilot, and SpaceX and NASA astronaut, his refusal to play the race game with the media cemented that respect.
But Glover wasn't done. This weekend, while on the mission, he was asked to reflect on Easter from his dizzying perspective hundreds of thousands of miles from Earth.
His answer was, in a word, beautiful.
As communities gather this weekend, @AstroVicGlover reflects on the shared spaceship we all call home: Earth. pic.twitter.com/GpwdeovpCR
— NASA (@NASA) April 5, 2026
'You are special in all of this emptiness.'
Notice how he never mentioned one group being more special than another. His message was to everyone. We are ALL special because God created the Earth for us in a vast sea of nothingness.
I can’t imagine what kind of insane perspective this would give you but I can’t stop thinking about what he said. Beautiful. https://t.co/kcQyKSDzMn
— Bridget Phetasy (@BridgetPhetasy) April 5, 2026
Phetasy has a pretty good perspective herself, with her last couple of essays going viral online for all the right reasons.
I’m not asking you, I’m telling you.
— 📸🔭Brandon Berkoff🚀✨ (@spacebrandonb) April 4, 2026
Take a moment and listen to this 81 second response from Victor Glover after being asked if he had any thoughts leading up to Easter.
I don’t quite think it can be overstated how perfect this crew is for the job. pic.twitter.com/5tc9v3NkaL
That was a nice camera angle because it showed Glover's fellow astronauts clasping hands with him as he concluded his remarks.
Victor Glover is a black man & gets asked of that significance for the Moon mission, & he gives a great answer while defusing culture war tension. Here he gets asked a similar thing but about his Christian faith, and again handles it perfectly. We sent the right people. https://t.co/aXhS59X1vL
— Robotbeat🗽 ➐ (@Robotbeat) April 5, 2026
He handled these questions perfectly because he was being himself. He was being authentic. And we have a serious dearth of authenticity these days (particularly in the political and podcasting spheres).
Happy Easter to all.@AstroVicGlover said it best
— Le Shrub🌳 (@agnostoxxx) April 5, 2026
🥹🙏 https://t.co/qnhJdeVgH2
Beautifully said. We DO have a Divine Creator, Maker of Heaven and Earth, who made us and LOVES us! Thank You, Jesus, for your sacrifice on the cross for us ✝️❤️ pic.twitter.com/6DdLpDNiJl
— LL (@lw4839) April 5, 2026
Great words !!
— What T's Me Off (@MrTdoff) April 5, 2026
Happy Easter ! pic.twitter.com/wsbjlAkziW
What made it even better was that Glover didn't need to -- or feel the need to -- proselytize from the cockpit. He talked about how he got his perspective from the Bible, and that's all he needed to say.
The message came through loud and clear, even that far away.
“When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?” - Psalm 8:3-4
— Josh Carrington (@Josh_Carrington) April 5, 2026
“The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork.”
— Random dude (@dude_random14) April 5, 2026
Psalms 19:1 NKJV
King David was a pretty wise man, too, just like Glover.
You really don’t appreciate what you have till you see it from outside
— S37un (@notats3gs) April 5, 2026
There is actually a term for this. Scientists call it the overview effect. It is something many astronauts have experienced, all the way back to the first Apollo missions.
A beautiful Easter message from space: https://t.co/6frs87Rs4d
— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) April 5, 2026
It comes as no surprise that this Easter message was delivered by Glover.
He is a devout Christian, even going so far as to take communion when he was on the International Space Station for six months. In 2023, he talked about his faith, appropriating a famous military saying for his current profession:
My career is fed by my faith, and you know, anytime I do something that’s pretty risky, I pray — before I fly, every time I fly. I fly airplanes a few times a week. Definitely when you go sit on top of a rocket ship.
In the military, there’s a saying that there are no atheists in foxholes. There aren’t any on top of rockets, either, I would think.
It's not really a coincidence that most astronauts who have traveled to space come back with a more profound faith and belief in God than when they left.
Glover has also called himself 'an ambassador of the Heavenly Kingdom.'
As far as messengers go, giving humanity an Easter Sunday message we very badly need right now, God picked a pretty good one in Victor Glover.
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