Victor J. Glover

“In Corpus Christi in 2000 I did primary flight training, and for all of 2001 I was in Kingsville for advanced flight training, and that's where I learned to fly jets.”

“There was a point where I was just saying to myself, breathe. Inhale, because I felt really heavy - I felt like those cartoons when they experience G and your face is just sagging down.”

“The vision of NASA is to reveal the unknown for the benefit of all humankind.”

“Keep your world small, keep your focus on the thing right in front of you and slowly widen out that world-view.”

“The only thing I'm afraid of is not coming home to my family.”

“I'm excited just to go to space.”

“Resilience is one of the most important aspects in this business and exploration period.”

“Before I go and even get in an airplane to go on a flight, I say a prayer, and I always think about my family.”

“But thanks to the International Space Station, we're able to study the effects of weightlessness and develop countermeasures in orbit, close to Earth.”

“God assigned me a few really important things: this life, this vessel, but also my wife and that relationship, the two of us becoming one and then the family that we've grown with our four daughters.”

“Earth is amazing, it's beautiful, it protects us, and so we should work hard to protect it.”

“People watched launches and tears ran down their faces, and then their kids would go jump into an encyclopedia or look online and read about rocket science. That's power.”

“Seeing Earth from here is quite spectacular, and it also makes me realize how important it is that we do all that we can to take care of it.”

“When the engine cut off and we were in orbit, it was surreal.”

“We all need to lean on God but we also need to lean on each other and be encouraging to one another.”

“I want to use the abilities that God has given me to do my job well and support my crewmates and mission and NASA.”

“God doesn't really have to have a concern for my patriotism, but I am an American, and we were blessed to be born in America.”

“I applied to do a fellowship in Congress and I was accepted to be a legislative fellow, so I go to work on the personal staff of a senator. I got very lucky and got to work in the office of Senator John McCain, and it was a yearlong program.”

“6,400 feet, that's the highest up I've ever been above the ground and so to get to a point beyond that, that'll be a little special moment.”

“My family on the ground is definitely in my thoughts and in my prayers, and on my socks.”