Victor Glover had to deliver his Easter thoughts from a place most of us will never see—deep space, with Earth shrinking into a single, bright idea.
According to Misryoum newsroom reporting, the Artemis II pilot, who is also the mission’s Lunar mission pilot, was asked Saturday by CBS News about observing Easter while traveling far from Earth. “I don’t have anything prepared. I’m glad you brought it up, though; I think these observances are important,” Glover said. Then he started tying together faith, distance, and what he can actually see out the window.
“As we are so far from Earth and looking at the beauty of creation, I think, for me, one of the really important personal perspectives that I have up here is I can really see the Earth as one thing,” Glover said. He talked about reading the Bible alongside the view above the spacecraft—“You guys are talking to us because we’re in a spaceship really far from earth, but you’re on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe and the cosmos.” And there was this insistence, a kind of calm certainty, that human life matters because it exists in a tiny, livable pocket.
He also made it personal in a way that lands even if you’re not into religious language. “Maybe the distance we are from you makes you think what we’re doing is special, but we’re the same distance from you. And I’m trying to tell you — just trust me — you are special,” he said. In all of this “emptiness,” he added, the universe is “a whole bunch of nothing,” yet there’s still “this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together.” The sentence doesn’t exactly fix the feeling of being so far away, but it does something close—like reminding people the world isn’t an abstract concept.
Misryoum newsroom reporting also says Glover framed Easter as a moment for shared responsibility. “I think, as we go into Easter Sunday, thinking about all the cultures all around the world, whether you celebrate it or not, whether you believe in God or not,” he said, “this is an opportunity for us to remember where we are, who we are, and that we are the same thing, and that we’ve gotta get through this together.” That’s the core of it: unity as a practical idea, not just a slogan.
The rest of the Artemis II crew includes NASA Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen. They’re preparing humanity’s first journey to the moon since 1972, on a flight path similar to Apollo 13. On Sunday, Misryoum newsroom reporting says the crew sent additional Easter greetings and even revealed they celebrated by hiding “eggs” around the spacecraft. Koch said the “eggs” were dehydrated scrambled egg variety, and—maybe because space makes everything slightly surreal—she sounded genuinely pleased about it. Hansen also delivered a message, emphasizing love as a universal value, saying, “Happy Easter everyone,” and adding that “for me the teachings of Jesus were always a very simple truth of love, universal love.”
One small detail from the day stuck with me more than it should have: the way people talk about scrambled eggs in orbit, like it’s normal. There’s something comforting in that, even if your ears still catch the steady hum of systems around you—like the spacecraft keeps going no matter what holiday calendar you’re trying to carry. And maybe that’s the point they kept circling back to: we can be far apart and still remember the same thing, even if we don’t all name it the same way.