Artemis Two Crew Proposes Lunar Crater Names

0:00On April 8th, Artemis II, crew just dropped a heartfelt move from Mooner Orbit, proposing names for two fresh moon craters. Commander Reed Wiseman and his team won one called Integrity after their capsule, and the other Carol for Reed's late wife. This happened right before their Monday fly-around, echoing Apollo 8's epic naming back in 1968. Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hanson made the radio call since Wiseman was too choked up to speak. The Carol was a neonatal nurse who passed from cancer in 2020. The craters are bright and young, one about three miles wide on the Moon's edge, visible from Earth, sometimes, the other bigger on the far side. Mission control went dead silent for almost a minute, then confirmed loud and clear. Ground teams had no clue it was coming, and NASA folks say there wasn't a dry eye in the house. Lead scientists Kelsey Young prepped the crew on spots to pick before launch. NASA nod to Jim Lovell's Mount Maryland from Apollo 8, but this crew showed raw emotion

1:00with tears and hugs after smashing Apollo 13's deep, space record, way more human than those stoic Apollo pilots, showing how far we've come. Names now head to the International Astronomical Union for approval, like Mount Maryland waited half a century. With Earth splashed down this week, these spots could join 81 other astronaut tributes up there, forever. Stay informed with Global News, AI-powered updates, I'm Corey with The Story.