Lunar crater named after mission chief's deceased wife
Houston, April 8 -- Artemis astronauts at the outer edge of human space travel had an emotional moment on Monday as they proposed to name a crater in honour of the deceased wife of mission commander Reid Wiseman. "It's a bright spot on the Moon. And we would like to call it Carroll," Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen told a live broadcast.
The crater can be seen "at certain times of the Moon's transit around Earth", he said.
As Wiseman and others wiped away tears, the four astronauts pulled together in a silent, floating embrace.
The Artemis II crew dubbed another crater "Integrity," in honour of the name they have given their spacecraft.
A Nasa spokesperson in Houston said the names proposed by the Artemis crew would be passed along to the ...
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