For Glover, the “greatest gift” of the mission was seeing the lunar eclipse from beyond the far side of the moon. <\/p>\n
For Wiseman, the “pinnacle moment” was when his team named a lunar crater after Wiseman’s late wife, Carroll, who died of cancer in 2020.<\/p>\n
“I think when Jeremy spelled Carroll’s name …. I think for me that is when I was overwhelmed with emotion and I looked over and Christina was crying,” Reid said.<\/p>\n
“Just for me personally, that was kind of the pinnacle moment of the mission for me,” he continued.<\/p>\n
The crew also said they were getting their source of news from planet Earth from their family members. <\/p>\n
They have “been our source of how the mission is going from the public perspective,” Wiseman said, before adding “obviously they’re all biased”. <\/p>\n
When asked by BBC’s News Science Editor Rebecca Morelle what the crew will miss most about being space, Christina Koch said she will miss the “camaraderie”. <\/p>\n
On what she won’t miss, Koch said there wasn’t anything. <\/p>\n
“We can’t explore deeper unless we are doing a few things that are inconvenient, unless we’re making a few sacrifices, unless we’re taking a few risks. And those things are all worth it,” she said. <\/p>\n
The crew now face several quieter days of checks and experiments before a final ordeal: a fiery plunge through the atmosphere at nearly 25,000mph and a parachute splashdown into the Pacific that will test the capsule’s heatshield and recovery systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Glover, the “greatest gift” of the mission was seeing the lunar eclipse from beyond the far side…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-520989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520989","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=520989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}