'Everybody wanted to be the first': Apollo astronauts were more competitive, Artemis 2 pilot says
24-06-2026 14:00 via space.com

'Everybody wanted to be the first': Apollo astronauts were more competitive, Artemis 2 pilot says

A lot has changed since NASA last sent astronauts to the moon — including the attitudes of those space explorers.That's the view of Victor Glover, the NASA astronaut who served as pilot on the Artemis 2 mission around the moon's far side this past April."When you look back on the Apollo 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
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