{"id":14602,"date":"2026-06-12T19:01:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=14602"},"modified":"2026-06-12T19:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:01:47","slug":"artemis-ii-astronaut-victor-glover-returns-home-to-ontario-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=14602","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover returns home to Ontario High School"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thirty-four years before Victor Glover took a trip around the moon, he made another important journey: Crossing the graduation stage as a member of the Ontario High School Class of 1994. <\/p>\n

On Friday, two months after circling the moon as the second in command and pilot of NASA\u2019s Artemis II mission, he touched down at Ontario High once more, speaking to a full house of community members.<\/p>\n

Glover, in a loose and casual tone, remembered transferring to the school halfway through his freshman year and praised educators who guided him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I was the president, well, if I was the governor, I would triple all of your salaries. The most noble thing you can do,\u201d Glover said.<\/p>\n

He recalled his education journey and math.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat resume and that journey was not a straight line. It was mistakes and failures and challenges along the line,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMath spoke to me. Numbers have always spoken to me,\u201d Glover told the audience.<\/p>\n

Glover, 50, grew up in Pomona but attended Ontario High, where he was a varsity football player and a champion wrestler.<\/p>\n

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For Glover, one of the first four people to visit the moon in almost 54 years, the dream of going to space started early \u2014 along with dreams of being a stuntman, a police officer like his father or president.<\/p>\n

When he joined the astronaut program in 2013, Glover\u2019s goal was to crew the International Space Station. he ended up doing that twice, totaling more than six months in space, and performed four spacewalks.<\/p>\n

Glover, a Navy Commander who flew missions off an aircraft carrier during the Iraq war, doesn\u2019t shy away from danger. Seventeen NASA astronauts have died during training or while on missions. But as a married father of four, he has a lot to return home to.<\/p>\n

The Artemis II crew only orbited the moon, including becoming the first humans to observe the far side of the moon, which always faces away from the Earth. Humans actually stepping out onto the surface of the moon is planned for a future Artemis mission. Glover hopes to be one of the lucky few to set foot there.<\/p>\n

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Glover was also the first Black man to go to the moon. He both recognizes its importance but has expressed the hope that it would one day no longer be notable.<\/p>\n

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