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Artemis 2 mission specialist calls down to mission control tor propose naming a moon crater after commander Reid Wiseman's late wife Carroll.

They also proposed naming another crater Integrity, after their Orion spacecraft.

Credit: NASA
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00:00Thank you, Houston.
00:01We have a couple more things we'd like to take this moment for.
00:06Our science team helped us out with a couple of relatively fresh craters on the moon
00:13that have not been previously named, and our crew would like to propose a couple
00:18of potential names for those items or those areas.
00:22And we spent a bit of time this morning looking out the window and we're able to see them now
00:27both
00:28with our naked eye and through the long lens.
00:30And so we feel this is a good time to send this down and a special shout out to Kelsey
00:35for helping us with this.
00:37The first one we'd like to suggest is a named crater in honor of our great spacecraft integrity.
00:46And so if you were to look at Oriental on the far side and then draw a line straight up
00:52to Ohm
00:53on the far side, relatively in the middle is an unnamed crater.
00:57And we would like to suggest it be called integrity in the future.
01:04And the second one, and especially meaningful for this crew, is a number of years ago we started this journey
01:12in our close-knit astronaut family and we lost a loved one.
01:17And there's a feature in a really neat place on the moon and it is on the near side, far
01:23side boundary.
01:24In fact, it's just on the near side of that boundary and so at certain times of the moon's transit
01:32around Earth, you can, we will be able to see this from Earth.
01:36And so we lost a loved one, her name was Carol, the spouse of Reed, the mother of Katie and
01:45Ellie.
01:49And if you want to find this one, you look at Glushko and it's just to the northwest of that
01:55at the same latitude as Ohm and it's a bright spot on the moon.
02:02And we would like to call her Carol and you spell that C-A-R-R-O-L-L.
02:54Integrity and Carol Crater, loud and clear. Thank you.
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