<\/p>\n “When you look back on the Apollo<\/a> missions, there was a lot more competition back in the office. Everybody wanted to be the first, and then everybody wanted to be the next,” Glover told Angels Broadcast Television on June 12, shortly before he threw out the first pitch<\/a> before a baseball game between the Los Angeles Angels and the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n “I think our office learned a lot from them,” he added. “There are some good things about that. It makes you work really hard, but it also can create some unnecessary conflict. And so my office really wants to support everybody \u2014 wants you to be the guy that does it, and somebody just gets picked to do it, and that’s OK.”<\/p>\n Glover and his Artemis 2 crewmates \u2014 NASA’s Reid Wiseman and Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency<\/a> \u2014 did indeed seem to forge a very strong bond during their training and their time in space.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n For example, shortly before Artemis 2’s April 1 launch<\/a>, Glover, Koch and Hansen came up with a plan to name a crater<\/a> on the moon after Wiseman’s wife Carroll, who died of cancer in 2020.<\/p>\n “They said the three of them had talked, and they would like to do this,” Wiseman said on April 6, the day Artemis 2 looped around the moon<\/a> and got farther from Earth<\/a> than any crewed mission ever had. “That was an emotional moment for me. And I just thought that was just a total treasure, that they had thought through this, and they had offered this.”<\/p>\n Wiseman, Artemis 2’s commander, said he broke down when Hansen radioed mission control with the naming request. In fact, all four astronauts were overcome with emotion<\/a> at that moment.<\/p>\n “That was, I think, where the four of us were the most forged, the most bonded, and we came out of that really focused on that day ahead,” Wiseman said.<\/p>\n \n This image taken by Buzz Aldrin of the Apollo 11 landing site is the only good picture of mission commander Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface. (Image credit: NASA)<\/p>\n The atmosphere was a bit different during the 1960s and early 1970s, as Glover noted; undercurrents of competition and rivalry reportedly ran through the Apollo crews.<\/p>\n For example, multiple people, including Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan,<\/a> have said that Buzz Aldrin lobbied<\/a> to be the first person to set foot on the moon, an honor that eventually went to Apollo 11<\/a> crewmate Neil Armstrong<\/a>. (Aldrin has disputed this version of events, saying he didn’t want to be the first-ever moonwalker.)<\/p>\n There are other big differences between Artemis and Apollo, of course. Apollo was designed to get people to the moon before the Soviet Union could do so<\/a>, a goal that was regarded as a national security imperative because it would demonstrate American technological supremacy. As a result of this need for speed, Apollo did not build anything permanent on the moon, leaving behind only flags<\/a>, footprints and defunct spacecraft.<\/p>\n Artemis, on the other hand, aims to establish a permanent and sustainable presence on Earth’s nearest neighbor. 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