{"id":517421,"date":"2026-04-07T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517421\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:30:08","slug":"artemis-ii-astronauts-break-a-record-name-a-crater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517421\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II astronauts break a record, name a crater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">A few minutes before 2PM ET on Monday, the crew of Artemis II <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/science\/907621\/artemis-ii-crew-crewed-mission-distance-record\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">broke a record set 56 years ago<\/a> by the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission \u2014 at over 248,655 miles, they have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans before them. They marked the occasion with a crater naming ceremony that left the whole crew embracing each other in lunar orbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The Artemis II crew proposed names for two craters on the Moon. The first they named after their spacecraft, Integrity. The second was more personal. \u201cA number of years ago, we started this journey and our close-knit astronaut family, and we lost a loved one,\u201d mission specialist Jeremy Hansen said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z-j1uxBmis0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">during NASA\u2019s livestream<\/a>. \u201cHer name was Carroll, the spouse of Reid, the mother of Katie and Ellie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Hansen described a crater that\u2019s \u201ca bright spot on the Moon\u201d and announced, \u201cWe would like to call it Carroll.\u201d As Hansen concluded the announcement, the crew gathered around in Integrity to share a hug. Carroll Wiseman was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/reid-wiseman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">commander Reid Wiseman\u2019s wife<\/a> and died from cancer in 2020 at 46 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few minutes before 2PM ET on Monday, the crew of Artemis II broke a record set 56&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,92,50,90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-517421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-nasa","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}