Special Feature: Pomona's Victor Glover Will Pilot NASA's 2024 Moon Mission

Norco 80

LAist Studios

True Crime

3.7 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It's been more than 50 years since an American has set foot on the moon, or even gotten close to it. But on Monday, NASA named the four astronauts who will crew the upcoming Artemis II mission. One of the astronauts selected, Victor Glover, a Southern Californian from Pomona graduated from Ontario High School in 1994 and went on to study engineering at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo before enlisting in the Navy in 1999 to become a pilot. Glover is the first African American assigned to a lunar mission and says of the experience, “This is well beyond my wildest dreams.”

Support LAist Studios podcasts by donating now at LAist.com/join

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	For ongoing coverage of the Southern California wildfires, download the new LASD mobile app so you can listen wherever you are.
0:07.0	You can also stream us on LAS.com or listen live on LASD 89.3. LAS will be there with you every step of the way.
0:15.5	Hey, it's just me, Paula Poundstone, and I'm coming to Glendale for a special live taping co-presented by L-Aist and Martin Media.
0:23.0	It's February 8th at the Alex Theater. Tickets at LAS.com slash events.
0:29.0	See you there.
0:45.6	L.A. The former president just got out of his SUV.
0:49.6	The former president just got out of his SUV.
0:55.0	I see him waving to folks that are there, which is really police officers, and then
0:58.1	he's walking underneath the facade of the
1:02.0	courthouse and entering into the
1:04.1	court building right now.
1:06.5	Remarkable day. In U.S. history, the first
1:09.4	former president to be criminally charged, Donald Trump, entering the Manhattan District Courthouse, live NPR coverage coming up at 11 o'clock right here on L.A.S. 89.3. Yesterday, NASA named the four astronauts who fly to the moon more than 50 years after the Apollo program ended.
1:30.9	The first crude Artemis mission is scheduled for late next year.
1:34.8	It includes the first woman and first black astronaut to undertake a moon mission.
1:39.9	That African-American astronaut is Southern California's own Victor Glover,
1:44.8	born in Pomona, graduate of Ontario High,
1:47.9	and with his undergrad degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
1:51.3	I spoke with him earlier this morning and asked whether being announced as a lunar astronaut
1:56.9	was something he could have envisioned as a young man growing up in the inland empire.
2:02.1	No way. This is bigger than my wildest dreams. You know, when I'm encouraging young people,
2:07.9	and people age too, to dream big, I'm saying that from experience because I didn't dream big
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from LAist Studios, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of LAist Studios and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.