Artemis II Considers Renaming Moon
Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen told mission controllers that the Artemis II crew wanted to honor their mission by naming two craters on the moon.
The astronauts proposed naming one crater, Integrity, after their Orion capsule.
Hansen read a poignant dedication to commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife, Carroll, who died in 2020.
“There’s a feature in a really neat place on the moon, and it is on the near side-far side boundary,” Hansen said. “In fact, it’s just on the near side of that boundary, and so at certain times of the moon transits around Earth, we will be able to see this from Earth.”
Hansen’s voice broke as he described this “bright spot on the moon,” which the crew requested be named Carroll.
Source nbcnews
