The Artemis II crew broke down in tears as they officially named a lunar crater after Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife, Carroll.
All four astronauts were seen wiping tears from their faces as Jeremy Hansen made the naming request with a shaking voice while broadcasting to Houston.
“A number of years ago we started this journey in our close-knit astronaut family, and we lost a loved one,” Hansen said.
The Artemis II crew broke down in tears as they officially named a lunar crater after Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife, Carroll. NASA/AFP via Getty Images “There’s a feature in a really neat place on the moon, and it is on the near side-far side boundary,” he said. “So at certain times of the moon’s transit around Earth, we will be able to see this from Earth.”
“We lost a loved one, her name was Carroll, the spouse of Reid, the mother of Katie and Ellie,” he added.
“We would like to call it Carroll,” he said of the crater, with Houston soon acknowledging the request.
A new photo captures the Moon’s near side on the right. The crew then floated together for a long embrace.
Wiseman’s wife, Carroll, died of cancer in 2020. She left behind Wiseman and their two daughters.
The crew also requested that another crater be named after their capsule, Integrity.
It all came just moments after the Artemis II astronauts became the humans to travel furthest from Earth, breaking the Apollo 13 record set in 1970 at 248,655 miles from Earth.
