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posted by Jason Kottke  ·  gift link

Livestream: Artemis II is about to fly around the Moon. At around 1:56pm ET, they’ll surpass the Apollo 13 distance record. And: “At their closest point, they’ll pass roughly 4,000 miles above the lunar surface.”

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Phil Wells

The moment when they named a crater after Carroll and then cried and had a group hug farther away from earth than any human has ever been. That took my breath away. Such a beautiful thing happening in such ugly times.

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Jason KottkeMOD

More on that crater dedication:

Next, Hansen read a poignant dedication to commander Reid Wiseman's wife, Carroll, who died in 2020.

"There's a feature in a really neat place on the moon, and it is on the near side-far side boundary," Hansen said. "In fact, it's just on the near side of that boundary, and so at certain times of the moon transits around Earth, we will be able to see this from Earth."

Hansen's voice broke as he described this "bright spot on the moon," which the crew requested be named Carroll. Wiseman and Koch could be seen wiping away tears. At the end of the message, the crew members all embraced as Mission Control radioed confirmation of the two newly named lunar craters.

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Tim Erskine

I watched that as it happened. No dry eyes here.

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