Artemis II Crew Names Lunar Crater 'Carroll' After Commander Wiseman's Late Wife

Carroll Taylor Wiseman, a neonatal nurse and mother of two, died at age 46 in 2020 from cancer, leaving her husband to raise their daughters alone.

At the farthest point any human being has ever traveled from Earth, the Artemis II crew paused amid the silence of deep space to ask that a piece of the moon bear the name of a woman who never lived to see them go. Carroll Taylor Wiseman — neonatal nurse, mother, wife — died of cancer in 2020 at 46, and now her name is proposed for a lunar crater that sits on the boundary between the moon's near and far sides, visible from Earth at certain moments in the cycle. The gesture, made 252,756 miles from home, reminds us that exploration has always carried its grief alongside its glory, and that the

Artemis II Crew Names Lunar Crater 'Carroll' After Commander Wiseman's Late Wife

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