\u201cTo the Moon and Back\u201d: Astronauts Commemorate Departed Loved One by Naming Moon Crater<\/p>\n
\u201cTo the moon and back\u201d is a well-known expression of \u201cI love you,\u201d but for the team of NASA\u2019s Artemis II, it was a literal sentiment. The four astronauts recently orbited the moon and took the opportunity to honor one of their own by naming a newly identified crater after Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman\u2019s deceased wife, Carroll.<\/p>\n
The crew\u2014Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and Jeremy Hansen\u2014successfully concluded their 10-day mission on Saturday, April 11, becoming the first humans to journey to the moon and return since the Apollo missions. Throughout their undertaking, they transmitted several messages back to Earth from within their Orion spacecraft.<\/p>\n
Upon finding \u201crelatively fresh craters on the moon,\u201d the crew captured a message suggesting new names for two of them. The first, Integrity, serves as a tribute to the spacecraft that brought them there. Hansen mentions in the video, \u201cIf you were to examine Orientale on the far side and then draw a line straight up to Ohm on the far side, relatively in the middle is an unnamed crater which we would like to propose be called Integrity in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
The second crater holds special significance and is situated in a \u201creally neat\u201d location near a boundary that makes it visible from Earth at certain times. Hansen shares that when their \u201cclose-knit astronaut family\u201d began planning their journey years ago, they experienced a profound loss. He states, \u201cHer name was Carroll, the spouse of Reed, the mother of Katie and Ellie.\u201d Hansen explains they would like to name the second crater after her and characterizes it as a \u201cbright spot\u201d on the moon at the same latitude as Ohm.<\/p>\n
You can witness Wiseman getting emotional as Hansen speaks, and the two embrace, followed by Koch and Glover joining in for a group hug. The touching video exemplifies how closely the four astronauts bonded during their mission.<\/p>\n
Wiseman\u2019s biography on NASA\u2019s website notes, \u201cCarroll devoted her life to assisting others as a Registered Nurse in a newborn intensive care unit. She is survived by their two children. Despite an extensive list of professional honors, Reid views his time as a single parent as his greatest challenge and the most fulfilling phase of his life.\u201d<\/p>\n
In celebration of the Artemis II mission, the crew named two newly discovered craters on the moon. One is in honor of their spacecraft, Integrity, while the other is named for Wiseman\u2019s late wife, Carroll. The Carroll crater is characterized as a \u201cbright spot\u201d on the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cTo the Moon and Back\u201d: Astronauts Commemorate Departed Loved One by Naming Moon Crater \u201cTo the moon and back\u201d is a well-known expression of \u201cI love you,\u201d but for the team of NASA\u2019s Artemis II, it was a literal sentiment. The four astronauts recently orbited the moon and took the opportunity to honor one of their own by naming a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/555879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winklersart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}