The Glenn Beck Program HOLD YOUR BREATH: Trump’s Iran Speech & Artemis II Launch ... | Guests: Butch Wilmore & Hugh Ross | 4/1/26
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Apr 1, 2026 
Hugh Ross, astrophysicist and founder of Reasons to Believe, links space science to biblical timelines. Butch Wilmore, retired NASA astronaut and mission commander, recounts being stranded in orbit and how faith steadied him. They talk about Artemis II’s significance, space exploration’s role, interpretations of Genesis and Noah’s Flood, and the personal realities of crisis and preparation in space.
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Artemis Launch As National Hope
- Glenn Beck links the Artemis II launch to national hope, saying engineered achievement restores faith in American capability.
- He emphasizes thousands of anonymous engineers whose precise work enables a visible moment that makes people look up and feel united.
Commander Wilmore's Starliner Crisis
- Butch Wilmore recounts commanding a Starliner mission that lost multiple thrusters and relied on docking to survive.
- He explains they lost five of eight aft thrusters, made a manual docking, and believed returning on that spacecraft would likely be impossible.
Train Early And Relentlessly For Contingencies
- Prepare obsessively for high-responsibility missions because commitment breeds the training needed to handle failures.
- Wilmore described early-morning simulator runs with a rendezvous officer and prepped for unforeseen contingencies to perform under pressure.
