With the Artemis II crew returning safely to Earth, Americans will celebrate the technological achievement. We should. Sending human beings beyond low Earth orbit and around the moon again is no small feat. It represents decades of engineering, discipline, and courage.
But one astronaut in particular offers more than a technological triumph. He offers a picture of American excellence.
Victor Glover did not arrive at that moment by accident.
What he did required a different kind of courage: not the physical courage of launch and re-entry, but moral courage.
He is not a symbol manufactured by a press office. He is not the product of a diversity initiative and a woke Marxist education. He is the result of something much older and much more demanding: hard work, discipline, intelligence,
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