Tonight, when the Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman’s daughters go to bed, they can look at the moon and know both their father and mother are out there.
Wiseman and the rest of the NASA mission’s crew flew around the lunar far side on Monday, April 6, marking the climactic moment in their 10-day spaceflight: their closest approach to the moon. Commander Wiseman, along with pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Jeremy Hansen and Christina Koch, spent their day in deep space observing the moon.
A few hours before mission control’s expected communication blackout with the Orion spacecraft, the crew announced they had seen two previously unnamed craters and would like to propose names for them.
One was to honor Wiseman’s late wife.
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