{"id":589192,"date":"2026-04-08T01:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/589192\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T01:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:07:13","slug":"artemis-ii-crew-names-crater-after-commanders-late-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/589192\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II crew names crater after commander&#8217;s late wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published on Apr. 7, 2026, 8:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>All names are subject to approval by the International Astronomical Union.<\/p>\n<p>A moment captured during NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/news\/science\/space\/artemis-2-moon-flyby-day-live-updates\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Artemis 2 mission<\/a> in space is warming hearts here on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Three NASA astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, have just been on a historic lunar fly-by.<\/p>\n<p>Although they didn\u2019t land on the moon, on April 6 at 1:57 p.m. ET, the four crew members made history by flying further into space than any other humans: a staggering 406,171 km from Earth, surpassing the record set by the Apollo 13 crew in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Moments after breaking the distance record, they shared an emotional moment, proposing they name one of the two newly-discovered craters that were found in a \u201cbright spot on the Moon\u201d after Commander Wiseman\u2019s late wife, Carroll, who died in 2020 at the age of 46.<\/p>\n<p>Caroll and Reid have two daughters, Katie, 17, and Ellie, 20.<\/p>\n<p>The astronauts proposed naming the other crater Integrity, after their capsule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on Apr. 7, 2026, 8:00 PM All names are subject to approval by the International Astronomical Union.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-589192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}