Artemis II astronauts break a record, name a crater
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Science Close Science Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Science Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Science News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All News Space Close Space Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Space Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Space Artemis II astronauts break a record, name a crater The crew proposed naming a ‘bright spot on the Moon’ after commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife, Carroll. The crew proposed naming a ‘bright spot on the Moon’ after commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife, Carroll. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All by Stevie Bonifield Link Share Gift Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All by Stevie Bonifield A few minutes before 2PM ET on Monday, the crew of Artemis II broke a record set 56 years ago by the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission — at over 248,655 miles, they have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans before them. They marked the occasion with a crater naming ceremony that left the whole crew embracing each other in lunar orbit. The Artemis II crew proposed names for two craters on the Moon. The first they named after their spacecraft, Integrity. The second was more personal. “A number of years ago, we started this journey and our close-knit astronaut family, and we lost a loved one,” mission specialist Jeremy Hansen said during NASA’s livestream . “Her name was Carroll, the spouse of Reid, the mother of Katie and Ellie.” Hansen described a crater that’s “a bright spot on the Moon” and announced, “We would like to call it Carroll.” As Hansen concluded the announcement, the crew gathered around in Integrity to share a hug. Carroll Wiseman was commander Reid Wiseman’s wife and died from cancer in 2020 at 46 years old. Both crater names have to be approved by the International Astronomical Union , which is responsible for naming planetary surface features. Stevie Bonifield Close Stevie Bonifield News Writer Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Stevie Bonifield Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All by Stevie Bonifield NASA Close NASA Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All NASA Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All NASA News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All News Science Close Science Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Science Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Science Space Close Space Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Space Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Space More in: NASA’s Artemis II mission to fly around the far side of the Moon Most Popular Is the Slate Truck too minimal for its own good? Logitech’s haptics-enhanced MX Master 4 mouse is on sale for under $100 Suno is a music copyright nightmare Can AI responses be influenced? The SEO industry is trying Buy two Nintendo Switch games, get $30 off at Target The Verge Daily A free daily digest of the news that matters most. This is the title for the native ad