NASA Artemis II crew propose naming moon crater after astronaut Reid Wiseman's late wife

The crew of NASA's historic Artemis II mission memorialized the late wife of one of its astronauts by proposing to name a crater on the moon after her, an emotional moment captured on NASA's livestream

The crew of NASA's historic Artemis II mission memorialized the late wife of one of its astronauts by proposing to name a crater on the moon after her, an emotional moment captured on NASA's livestream.

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Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen radioed to mission control Monday that the crew wanted to "honor their mission by naming two craters on the moon.”

One of the craters was dedicated to the wife of Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, Carroll Wiseman, who died of cancer in 2020 at 46.