00:00Five months after their launch around the moon, two more Artemis II astronauts have hung up their spacesuits for good.
00:06Canadian Space Agency astronaut and Artemis II specialist Jeremy Hansen already announced in July that he'd be stepping back from
00:12active astronaut duty this month.
00:14And now the Artemis II commander and pilot have both made moves to do the same.
00:19NASA astronauts Reed Weissman and Victor Glover are now astronauts emeriti at the space agency and are stepping into supportive
00:25roles as they pursue new opportunities.
00:26But they're not retiring outright.
00:28Every astronaut, even when you just fully retire and go off and do something else completely, they still have a
00:35badge, a special badge in the system.
00:38But I actually get to have a badge that is a little bit different.
00:41You know, with our experience flying Orion in space, the agency knows that we can still make a meaningful contribution
00:47to Artemis and human spaceflight in general without having to be there full time.
00:53Glover will be balancing time between the Johnson Space Center in Houston and the West Coast, where he started a
00:58new role as executive advisor to the president of Cal Poly University.
01:01But exactly what that job looks like day to day is still taking shape.
01:05I am full time here, but we are, you know, strategizing on what that means.
01:09So we're still figuring it out.
01:11It's not going to be nine to five.
01:12I'm not a faculty member.
01:13I don't have a class that I have to teach or a board that I oversee.
01:16It'll be where the school needs me the most and where I can highlight what great work they're already doing
01:22or where I can blaze a path where there isn't one and hope to bring some new partnerships and some
01:28new visibility or resources to this amazing team and student body.
01:31For Glover, this is a return to his alma mater.
01:34He graduated from Cal Poly with an engineering degree in 1999, played football and wrestled for the school.
01:39And it's where he met his wife, Deanna.
01:41Cal Poly's learn by doing philosophy gives students hands on experience alongside their time in the classroom.
01:47And it's something Glover says he's carried with him since he was a student and something his career at NASA
01:51only reinforced.
01:52That kind of risk decision, informed risk decision making is an important part of, you know, what we do here,
02:00whether it's professional development or getting these students, helping them to become the next generation of leaders.
02:05As for whether he'll ever drop the new emeritus status for an eventual return to space, Glover doesn't really see
02:10that one in the cards.
02:12I didn't make this move planning to go back to space.
02:14I was pretty satisfied after my first space mission.
02:18This is about the next generation of leaders, and it's also about my family.
02:23So, you know, I don't have this hole in my heart that needs to be filled by going to space
02:27again.
02:28If I wanted to go to space, I would have stayed at NASA.
02:30It's the gold standard.
02:31Glover's transition from active astronaut duty has apparently come with some new training requirements, choreography.
02:37Some of his daughter Maya's recent TikTok posts have featured Glover's dutifully practiced dance moves, but he says not to
02:43get used to those cameos.
02:45Don't expect to see a whole lot more of that.
02:47What takes more rehearsal time, learning to fly Orion or learning those dance moves?
02:52Oh, clearly the dance moves.
02:54Oh, that's awesome.
02:55That's awesome.
