VICTOR GLOVER The NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew Dragon pilot
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Victor J. Glover is a NASA astronaut and Naval Aviator. In his first spaceflight mission, he served as the pilot on the Crew-1 flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, which launched on 15 November 2020. Crew-1 was the first operational commercial crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and the second such flight overall after SpaceX's Demo-2 test mission, which launched in May 2020. On Crew-1, Glover became the 15th black astronaut in space and the first black astronaut to stay for an extended period on the ISS, where he spent nearly six months as Flight Engineer in orbit as part of Expedition 64.