Artemis II pilot Victor Glover’s daughter steals spotlight in viral tribute: 'First daughter of the moon'

As Artemis II races toward a historical instrumentality from the moon, it’s a daughter’s joyful, offbeat tribute to astronaut Victor Glover that’s capturing the internet’s heart.

Glover's girl went viral connected societal media this week aft posting a video playfully dancing portion wearing a garment donning a representation of her begetter successful a abstraction suit.

"When your dada successfully pilots Artemis II halfway to the satellite ... & u hide the dance," Glover's daughter, Maya, wrote successful an Instagram post.

The video amassed a staggering 21.9 cardinal views connected TikTok and Instagram arsenic of Thursday afternoon, with companies including Walmart and Spotify weighing successful connected her parent's awesome feat.

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Maya Glover shared a video connected societal media celebrating her begetter amid the Artemis II satellite mission. (@mayalorinnn/TikTok)

"This rather virtually makes you generationally iconic," Instagram's authoritative relationship commented connected the post.

Walmart added, "'yeah my dada is retired of this world.'"

"First girl of the moon," Starbucks commented.

Astronauts Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman, and Victor Glover be a invited ceremonial astatine Kennedy Space Center successful Florida connected March 27, 2026, up of the Artemis II ngo motorboat scheduled for April 1, 2026. (Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP)

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Coach replied, "He's an icon."

Victor Glover is the archetypal Black astronaut to question beyond debased Earth orbit and travel to the vicinity of the moon.

In a abstracted post, the California Polytechnic State University pupil shared a bid of NASA-related photos from her childhood.

"The kid that built rockets successful the store wearing her dads aviator helmet conscionable watched her dada motorboat to the satellite connected the astir almighty rocket humans person ever built for each mankind," she wrote successful the post. "We emotion you dad."

In this representation provided by NASA, Artemis II unit members, from left, Victor Glover Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Christina Koch, intermission to crook the camera astir for a selfie midway done their lunar reflection play of the Moon during a lunar flyby, Monday, April 6, 2026. (NASA)

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Following a palmy 10-day mission, Orion is expected to splash down successful the Pacific Ocean Friday night.

Re-entry remains a ample hurdle, with dangers arising from the 25,000 mph high-speed instrumentality to Earth.