The crew suggested naming a “bright spot on the Moon” after Carroll, the late wife of commander Reid Wiseman. A few minutes before 2 PM ET on Monday, the Artemis II crew broke a record set 56 years ago by Apollo 13 — they traveled over 248,655 miles away from Earth, farther than any humans before. They marked this with a crater naming ceremony, embracing each other in lunar orbit. Two craters were proposed for names: one after their spacecraft, Integrity, and another named Carroll for Reid Wiseman’s wife, who passed away from cancer in 2020 at age 46. Mission specialist Jeremy Hansen mentioned the bright lunar crater during NASA’s livestream. Both names require approval from the International Astronomical Union, which names planetary surface features.
Artemis II Astronauts Set Record, Name Crater
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