The crew shared an emotional moment with mission control and the family of Reid Wiseman, whose wife, Carroll, died in 2020, on the ground in Houston.
Artemis II made history Monday as the 4 astronauts aboard have officially surpassed the record set by Apollo 13 for the furthest any human has ever travelled. They will reach a maximum distance of 252,752 miles away from Earth, which is about 4,102 miles further than the Apollo 13 mission flew in 1970. In honor of this accomplishment, the astronauts decided to name two previously unnamed moon craters. One they named after their spacecraft, 'Integrity.' The other they named after Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman's wife, Carroll, who passed away from cancer in 2020. #nasa #artemisii #moon #apollo13