While preparing for his own odyssey, Victor Glover kept a journal detailing conversations with astronauts who preceded him in space.

“I’ve been given so much good advice,” he told Engineering Advantage in 2019.

While those pioneers offered wisdom about space travel, they also reminded him to take it all in — to be in awe of it.

“I’m looking forward to falling asleep and waking up in zero gravity,” he said in advance of the mission.

In November, 2020, Glover (General Engineering, ’98) became the fourth Cal Poly alumnus to leave the planet. The mission pilot successfully navigated a full load of passengers aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, delivering his team to the International Space Station for a six-month assignment 260 miles above Earth.

For Glover, the experience represents an accomplishment only a small, elite group of women and men will ever achieve. For Cal Poly, it’s another point of pride for a university that debuted its aeronautic program in 1927. And for future students, it’s a reminder that even the most far-out dreams are within reach.

Learn more about Victor Glover and Mission: Learn by Doing at Cal Poly Alumni.

Photos courtesy of NASA.