NASA’s Artemis II mission has been bringing people together in some surprising ways, as space geeks and just those slightly curious about the cosmos follow the crew’s updates. The venture is the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit in decades, as well as the furthest human expedition beyond the planet in history. It has been filled with no shortage of surprising and often beautiful moments (including the fact that a piece of the Wright Brothers’ plane is on board the craft), but the newest one has just taken things to a whole new level.
On Monday, as the Artemis II crew continued their record-breaking orbit, they called down to mission control to commemorate the occasion, as well as request that a few “relatively fresh craters on the moon” be renamed. In addition to naming a crater Integrity, after the capsule that the Artemis II crew have been traveling in, they requested that another crater be named Carroll. This dedication was even more personal, as it was in honor of Carroll Taylor Wiseman, the late wife of Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman.
