Watch: Artemis II crew gets emotional as they name moon crater after astronaut's late wife

Artemis II crew members got emotional as they named a moon crater after U.S. astronaut's Reid Wiseman's late wife on Monday (April 6). The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II mission cruised on Monday to the deepest point in space reached by any human. Along the way, the astronauts spent some time assigning provisional new names to lunar features that previously lacked official designations.

In a radio message to mission control in Houston, Hansen suggested one crater be dubbed Integrity, after the name given to the crew's Orion capsule, and that another crater sometimes visible from Earth on the cusp between the far and near sides of the moon be named in honor of Wiseman's late wife, Carroll, who died of cancer in 2020. Footage showed the Artemis crew members hugging and wiping away tears after Hansen's radio message.