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Emotional Artemis II crew names Moon crater 'Carroll' after commander's late wife
April 7, 2026
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Retired NASA astronaut Terry Virts says Artemis II mission astronauts have named a crater in a bright region of the Moon “Carroll,” in tribute to Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife, Carroll Taylor Wiseman, who died of cancer in 2020. “It was a tragedy, and they named a crater after her,” Mr Virts told Sky News Australia. “The astronauts were choking up, I was choking up.
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