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Artemis II mission makes lunar flyby on Orion craft

Astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II mission undertook a flyby of the moon on Monday cruising along a path in the Moon's gravitational sphere of influence that will soon take them over the shadowed, lunar far side. The four astronauts have now reached farther than any human has been from Earth. After they broke the record held by the Apollo 13 crew for 56 years, the crew took the opportunity to name several landmarks on the moon, including one in honor of the late wife of Artemis II commander, Reid Wiseman. Carroll Wiseman passed away in April of this year, after a long battle with cancer. Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen grew emotional as he made the announcement and was embraced by Reid Wiseman and the other two crew members. Hansen and NASA astronauts Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch will sail around the moon's far side, witnessing it from roughly 4,000 miles above its darkened surface as it eclipses what will appear to be a basketball-sized Earth in the distant background. The milestone is a climactic point in the nearly ten-day Artemis II mission, the first crewed test flight of NASA's Artemis program.

NASA VIA REUTERS

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00:00The first one we'd like to suggest is a named crater in honor
00:05of our great spacecraft, Integrity.
00:08And so if you were to look at Oriental on the far side and then draw a line straight
00:14up to Ohm on the far side, relatively in the middle is an unnamed crater
00:19and we would like to suggest it be called Integrity in the future.
00:27And the second one, and especially meaningful for this crew, is a number of years ago we started this journey
00:34in our close-knit astronaut family and we lost a loved one.
00:39And there's a feature in a really neat place on the moon, and it is on the near side, far
00:46side boundary.
00:47In fact, it's just on the near side of that boundary.
00:50And so at certain times of the moon's transit around Earth, you can, we will be able to see this
00:58from Earth.
00:59And so we lost a loved one.
01:01Her name was Carol, the spouse of Reed, the mother of Katie and Ellie.
01:11And if you want to find this one, you look at Glushko, and it's just to the northwest of that,
01:18at the same latitude as Ohm, and it's a bright spot on the moon.
01:24And we would like to call it Carol, and you spell that C-A-R-R-O-L-L.
01:57Houston Integrity, one report from the crew at the windows.
02:00We could actually see the moon and Earth at the same time right now.
02:06It's interesting because the Earth looks way brighter, so the Earth itself seems to have a much higher albedo than
02:14the moon.
02:14Excuse me, science.
02:15Integrity, I was able to get a view out of window one, which is a beautiful view.
02:19I can see the entire moon that they're looking at.
02:23We left the T-shirt up there, so I was kind of peeking through the opening and the makeshift shroud
02:28there.
02:29And once I was able to get two eyes on it, what jumped out at me was Babelov.
02:35It's just peeking out of the Terminator.
02:38It's clear of the Terminator now, but it just really jumps out because it's still got the low light, the
02:43low sun angle.
02:44And so where Babelov has that impact over the top of another crater, where the two craters intersect on the
02:51eastern edge.
02:52So on the side closest to Oriental, where the two crater rings intersect, the shadow there is the highest peak
03:03in the interior of Babelov.
03:12Also, an interesting part of the discussion that I heard between Reid and Jeremy is that from Glishko to Grimaldi,
03:23there are two dark features there that look like commas.
03:28Love the descriptions.
03:30You're definitely looking odd up there.
03:32Appreciate seeing the training being implemented.
03:34Oh, I put it away from the speaker. Say it again, please.
03:39We believe that that is Zeman Crater.
03:43The Terminator right now is just fantastic.
03:46It is the most rugged that I've seen it.
03:49From a lighting perspective, there are little islands.
03:52There are islands of terrain out there that are completely surrounded by darkness,
03:55which indicates some real variation in terrain.
04:15A place in the distance, which means small.
04:15Here we go to the distance.
04:15Yeah, it is the most rugged.
04:20And it is the most rugged in the distance.
04:26It is the most rugged that have no待度 as possible.
04:26And it is the most rugged that have no單位.
04:26It is the most rugged that have no independence.
04:27It is a real figure.
04:29It is the most rugged, which means is the most rugged.
04:30There are a fewennes and the first тысячes ines.
04:30The terminal, which means the most widows are a full-style.
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