Once at a space conference I attended in Colorado Springs, NASA astronaut Victor Glover — the pilot of NASA's upcoming Artemis 2 mission to the moon — said something that caused a bit of a stir. It was April 17, 2023, just two weeks after NASA had named Glover to the Artemis 2 crew , a lunar flight that will make him the first person of color ever to visit the moon. Glover was there at the Space Symposium conference with other astronauts to talk about, well, space. Glover happens to be Black. And now he's going to the moon. NASA is targeting April 1 for the launch of Artemis 2 , which will send Glover and three other astronauts on a 10-day lunar flyby mission. "It's funny, because that Space Symposium caused me a lot of grief in the next months because people tried to quote me out of context," Glover told me in an interview last September. "And it ain't about racism. It's about the human condition." "Whitey on the Moon" is a spoken-word poem by Gil Scott-Heron published and set to music in 1970.…