Los astronauts of Artemis IIat the furthest limit of human space travel, had an emotional moment Monday when they named a crater in honor of the deceased wife of the commander of the mission, Reid Wiseman.
“It’s a bright spot on the Moon. And we would like to name it Carroll,” said the Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen in a live broadcast.
He crater can be seen “at certain moments of the transit of the Luna around the Earth,” he added, as Wiseman and the other flight companions wiped away tears.
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Los four Artemis II astronauts They joined in a silent floating embrace.
Carroll Taylor Wiseman died of cancer in 2020, and since then Reid Wisemana former fighter pilot, raises their two daughters alone.
The crew of Artemis II baptized another crater “Integrity”, the name they have given to their spacecraft.
The astronauts on Monday became the human beings who have traveled the furthest on Earth. Tierrawhile they prepared to observe areas of the Luna never before seen by the human eye, as part of the historic lunar flyby of the NASA.
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