More than 400,000 km from Earth, an emotional moment in space silence: the Artemis astronauts named a lunar crater on Monday in honor of Carroll Taylor Wiseman, deceased wife of the mission commander.
“There is a relief in a beautiful place on the Moon, on the border between the visible side and the far side,” announced Canadian Jeremy Hansen during the broadcast, shortly after their device exceeded the distance record from Earth. “At certain times during the lunar transit, you will be able to see it from Earth.” “It’s a clear point on the Moon, we would like to name it Carroll,” he announced.
Reid Wiseman, the American NASA astronaut who commands the Artemis II mission, burst into tears. His teammates did too, and they all hugged each other. The astronauts named another crater “Integrity”, which is the name given by the crew to their spacecraft, before several hours of close observations of the Moon.
“We are choosing this moment to challenge this generation and the next to make this record short-lived,” said Jeremy Hansen. Carroll Taylor Wiseman died of cancer in 2020, and Reid Wiseman, a former fighter pilot, has since raised their two daughters alone.
