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Artemis 2 pilot Victor Glover says he listens to Gil Scott‑Heron’s 1970 poem-song Whitey on the Moon every Monday to stay grounded in the human realities behind space exploration, a perspective he says informs NASA’s moon mission as he and three crewmates prepare for a 10-day lunar flyby that would make him the first person of color to visit the Moon.
NASA astronaut Victor Glover, the pilot of the Artemis II mission around the Moon, listens to Gil Scott-Heron's poem "Whitey on the Moon" twice a week on the way to work. The poem criticizes investment in space when Black people in the U.S. couldn't afford health care. Glover believes it's important to listen to spaceflight skeptics and recognize and respect them. Many NASA astronauts have historically avoided speaking out on politically charged topics, but that has changed in recent years.