At just 44 years old, Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman became a widow when he lost his wife Carroll to cancer.
Now six years later and nearly 250,000 miles from Earth, the moon mission's crew shared an emotional moment when it came time to name a crater they spotted from the Orion capsule on Monday, April 6.
"We would like to call it Carroll," said mission specialist Jeremy Hansen, his voice cracking as Wiseman patted his shoulder and wiped his tears.
“A number of years ago we started this journey, in our close-knit astronaut family we lost a loved one,” Hansen said to Mission Control in Houston, adding that the crater "is in a really neat place on the moon."
He called it a bright spot on the lunar surface that can been seen from Earth during certain times of the lunar cycle.
