Like is fellow crew, his words hark back to a bygone space age, and the words of then President John F. Kennedey 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”.
Victor’s call sign is IKE, which is reputedly short for “I Know Everything,” ackowledging his three master’s degrees – in flight test engineering, systems engineering and military operational art and science.
Victor was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013. He has previously served as the pilot of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station as part of Expedition 64.
He was born in Pomona, California and is married with four children.
Victor is set to be the first black person to go to the Moon