FOR THE ARTEMIS II crew, the office was a spacecraft orbiting the moon. Aboard NASA’s Orion capsule, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, lived and worked in lunar space on the first crewed mission of the Artemis program, and the first crewed flight toward the moon in more than fifty years.
In a mid-mission interview with CBS News on April 5, 2026, astronaut and United States Navy captain Victor Glover was asked if he had a message for Easter. While he had not prepared a speech, what he shared was poignant and notable.
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, in the cosmos. I think 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. In all of this emptiness, this is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe.
You have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together. I think as we go into Easter Sunday, thinking about, you know, all the cultures all around the world, whether you celebrate it or not, whether you believe in God or not, 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 got to get through this together.