‘No one had done it before him’: the groundbreaking stories of Black astronauts

In documentary The Space Race, the people involved with major progress within Nasa talk about their highs and lows

In space, Victor Glover orbited the Earth every 90 minutes, witnessing 16 sunrises and sunsets in a single day. In America, Victor Glover got behind the wheel of his car and knew that, as a Black man, he might be pulled over by police.

You still have to drive home from work and be worried about a busted tail light stop," he recalls of his early years training to be astronaut. I am the son of a police officer so I knew all those tactics. I've been pulled over. I had police officers harass and I would give them my ID and they'd be like, Oh, this is Victor Glover's kid,' and then I got treated differently.