Those who have met Victor say is the most charismatic of the quartet and the most sharply dressed, with designer brown leather boots making him look good even in an orange flight suit.
“Pushing ourselves to explore is core to who we are,” he says in a Nasa interview. It is part of being human.”
Like is fellow crew, his words hark back to a bygone space age, and the words of then President John F. Kennedy in 1962:
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.”
Victor goes on to say: “It is in our nature. We go out to explore, to learn where we are, why we are, understanding the big questions about our place in the universe.”