#carroll

[justtexa]

Crying about A Crater of Remembrance by NASA on a regular Thursday I'm afraid.

More pictures of the Moon on NASA's website here!

[thepastisalreadywritten]

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At 252,756 miles from Earth — the farthest any humans have ever traveled — the Artemis II crew shared a heartfelt group hug.

It happened right after they honored Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife by proposing to name a bright lunar crater “Carroll.”

In a tender, floating embrace inside the Orion spacecraft, the four astronauts — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen — let the emotion of the moment wash over them: a mix of awe, loss, love, and unbreakable camaraderie.

Now, with the Moon behind them, the crew is accelerating homeward, hurtling back toward our planet on a trajectory that will culminate in a scheduled splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego on April 10.

Their mission stands as a powerful reminder that even at the farthest edge of deep space, where the Earth appears as a fragile blue marble against the infinite void, human connection remains our greatest strength.

Source: NASA

[academic-vampire]

History is being made today with the inspirational Artemis II crew. Here is to our two newly named craters: the Integrity Crater & and Carroll Crater

[unteriors]

Manning Street, Carroll, Nebraska.

[rosslynpaladin]

Artemis II

The furthest that human beings have ever been from Earth

and what they did in that moment all the way out there was wrap their arms around each other and remember someone they loved.

[terri104]

🫶

—Commander Reid Wiseman, Artemis II, April 6, 2026

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