<\/p>\n“A number of years ago, we started this journey in our close-knit astronaut family and we lost a loved one,” Artemis 2 mission specialist Jeremy Hansen said to mission control. “Her name was Carroll: the spouse of Reid, the mother of Katie and Ellie.”<\/p>\n
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Hansen was referring to Artemis 2 mission commander Reid Wiseman’s wife, who tragically died of cancer in 2020. The crewmembers together requested naming a crater they identified on the moon after her.<\/p>\n
Northwest of the moon’s Glushko crater, on the same latitude as the Ohm crater, sits the proposed “Carroll” crater. Hansen called the crater a “bright spot” along the moon’s near side that can be seen from Earth. As his crewmate spoke, Wiseman reached over to put a hand on Hansen’s shoulder, as each member of the Artemis 2 crew moved into a collective embrace.<\/p>\n
The mission’s crewmembers chose to name a different crater after their Orion spacecraft, named Integrity.<\/p>\n
As the astronauts wiped tears from their eyes, NASA’s mission control responded to their transmission: “Integrity and Carroll Crater, loud and clear.”<\/p>\n
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Orion’s closest approach to the moon will take place later Monday, bringing the crew within about 4,000 miles (6,440 kilometers) of the lunar surface. That flyby begins at 7:02 p.m. EDT (2302 GMT), and will last a little more than three hours.<\/p>\n
During that time, Orion will also reach its farthest distance from Earth, flying at a staggering 252,760 miles (406,778 kilometers) away from our home planet.<\/p>\n
The crew’s lunar observations are expected to wrap up at 9:20 p.m. EDT (0120 GMT, April 7), at which point, they’ll officially be on their way back to Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Tex. \u2014 Today (April 6), as NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts had their names etched into history books…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-378531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}