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A crater called Carroll

On Monday, somewhere between Earth and the moon, four astronauts floating in zero gravity wrapped their arms around each other and cried. Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen had just radioed to mission control with a request from the Artemis II crew: they wanted to name two craters on the moon. One, he said, would honor the late wife of mission commander Reid Wiseman — Carroll Wiseman, who died of cancer in 2020 at just 46 years old. "We lost a loved one," Hansen said. "Her name was Carroll, the spouse of Reid, the mother of Katey and Ellie." He described the crater as "a bright spot on the moon." Then he called it Carroll.

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