Overview
- The astronauts, in a video from Orion on Monday, proposed naming a bright lunar spot "Carroll" and a crater "Integrity" after spotting previously unnamed features.
- "Carroll" would honor Commander Reid Wiseman’s wife, Carroll Taylor Wiseman, who died of cancer in 2020 at age 46.
- The crew located the proposed "Carroll" feature near the near-side and far-side boundary, northwest of Glushko and at the latitude of Ohm, and said it can be visible from Earth at times.
- The naming moment brought visible emotion as the four crewmates embraced, and the team also surpassed the Apollo 13 distance record at 248,655 miles from Earth.
- The International Astronomical Union governs planetary naming, and past astronaut nicknames like Mount Marilyn later became official, so these proposals now move into that review process after the flight.