A few minutes before 2 p.m. ET on Monday, the crew of Artemis II broke the record set by the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission 56 years ago — at more than 248,655 miles, they have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans before them. They marked the occasion with a crater naming ceremony, in which the entire crew hugged each other in lunar orbit.
The Artemis II crew proposed names for two craters on the Moon. First of all he named his spacecraft Integrity. The second was more personal. “Several years ago, we and our close-knit astronaut family began this journey and we lost a loved one,” mission specialist Jeremy Hansen said during a NASA livestream. “Her name was Carol, Reed’s wife, Katie and Ellie’s mother.”
Hansen described a crater that is “a bright spot on the moon” and announced, “We’d like to call it Carroll.” As Hansen finished the announcement, the crew gathered at Integrity to hug each other. Carol Wiseman was the wife of Commander Reed Wiseman and died of cancer in 2020 at the age of 46.
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