Artemis II astronauts break record and name crater

A few minutes before 2 PM ET on Monday, the Artemis II crew arrived He broke a record that was set 56 years ago Thanks to the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission – at a distance of more than 248,655 miles – they have now traveled farther from Earth than any human before them. They marked the occasion with a crater naming ceremony that left the entire crew embracing each other in lunar orbit.

The Artemis 2 crew has proposed names for two craters on the moon’s surface. The first they named their spacecraft, Integrity. The second was more personal. “Several years ago, as we began this journey with our close-knit astronaut family, we lost a loved one,” mission specialist Jeremy Hansen said. During a live broadcast from NASA. “Her name was Carol, Red’s wife, Katie and Ellie’s mother.”

Hansen described the crater as “a bright spot on the moon” and declared: “We would like to call it Carol.” When Hansen finished his announcement, the crew gathered at Integrity to share a hug. It was Carol Weisman Wife of Commander Reed Wiseman He died of cancer in 2020 at the age of 46.