Victor J. Glover

Victor Jerome Glover

Country:	United States United States
Organization:	NASA
selected on	June 17, 2013 ( 21st NASA Group )

Victor Jerome Glover (born April 30, 1976 in Pomona , California ) is an American astronaut from NASA who has not yet completed a space flight. Glover is a US Navy commander and a graduate of the US Air Force Test Pilot School. He holds degrees from California Polytechnic State University , Air University, and Naval Postgraduate School . He worked as an employee of the US Senator John McCain .

Time as a military pilot

In 2003 he finished his training as a pilot of the F / A - 18 Hornet . In the following time he made more than 400 landings on an aircraft carrier and flew 24 combat missions in Operation Iraqi Freedom on the carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) . During his one year test pilot training, he flew more than 30 types of aircraft. On June 9, 2007, he was appointed test pilot. As a test pilot at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake , he tested various weapon systems on the F / A-18 Hornet, Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler . He completed more than 3,000 flight hours on more than 40 types of aircraft.

Crew Dragon

In August 2018 he was assigned to the second manned mission of the spacecraft Dragon V2 ( SpaceX Crew-1 ).

Web links

Commons : Victor J. Glover - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Victor J. Glover on the NASA website - biography, pictures and videos (English; PDF)

Individual evidence

↑ Sean Potter: NASA Assigns Crews to First Commercial Test Flights, Missions . In: NASA . August 3, 2018 ( nasa.gov [accessed August 4, 2018]).
^ How I became an astronaut: Victor Glover . In: USA TODAY College . May 18, 2017 ( usatoday.com [accessed August 4, 2018]).
↑ Victor J. Glover, Jr. (Commander, US Navy) NASA astronaut NASA homepage
↑ Loren Grush: NASA announces crews for the first flights of SpaceX and Boeing's passenger spacecraft. In: The Verge. Vox Media, August 3, 2018, accessed August 4, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Glover, Victor J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Glover, Victor Jerome (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American astronaut from NASA
DATE OF BIRTH	April 30, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pomona , California , USA

[1] Sean Potter: NASA Assigns Crews to First Commercial Test Flights, Missions . In: NASA . August 3, 2018 ( nasa.gov [accessed August 4, 2018]).

[2] How I became an astronaut: Victor Glover . In: USA TODAY College . May 18, 2017 ( usatoday.com [accessed August 4, 2018]).

[3] Victor J. Glover, Jr. (Commander, US Navy) NASA astronaut NASA homepage

[4] Loren Grush: NASA announces crews for the first flights of SpaceX and Boeing's passenger spacecraft. In: The Verge. Vox Media, August 3, 2018, accessed August 4, 2018 .