{"id":206904,"date":"2026-04-08T06:25:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/who-was-reid-wisemans-wife-artemis-ii-crew-shares-touching-moment-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:25:25","slug":"who-was-reid-wisemans-wife-artemis-ii-crew-shares-touching-moment-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/who-was-reid-wisemans-wife-artemis-ii-crew-shares-touching-moment-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Reid Wiseman's wife? Artemis II crew shares touching moment. – USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

At just 44 years old, Artemis II<\/a> Commander Reid Wiseman became a widower when he lost his wife Carroll to cancer.
Now six years later and nearly 250,000 miles from Earth, the moon mission<\/a>‘s crew shared an emotional moment<\/a> when it came time to name a crater<\/a> they spotted from the Orion capsule on Monday, April 6.
“We would like to call it Carroll,” said mission specialist Jeremy Hansen, his voice cracking as Wiseman patted his shoulder and wiped his tears.
\u201cA number of years ago we started this journey, in our close-knit astronaut family we lost a loved one,\u201d Hansen said to Mission Control in Houston, adding that the crater “is in a really neat place on the moon.”
He called it a bright spot on the lunar surface that can been seen from Earth during certain times of the lunar cycle.
Shortly after that, Wiseman and Hansen were hugging. Their crewmates, mission pilot Victor Glover and crew specialist Christina Koch, then joined them for a group hug.
It was a heartfelt moment for the history-making crew<\/a>, which on Monday surpassed a record distance from Earth of 248,655 miles \u2212 set in 1970 during the infamous Apollo 13 mission, according to NASA.
Carroll Wiseman “dedicated her life to helping others as a newborn intensive care unit Registered Nurse,” NASA says.<\/a> “Despite a long list of professional accolades, Reid considers his time as an only parent as his greatest challenge and the most rewarding phase of his life.”
Carroll Taylor Wiseman was 46 years old when she lost a five-year battle with cancer on May 17, 2020. She was survived by her husband, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, the couple’s two daughters, Katie and Ellie, and her parents. She also had a brother and a sister and was the aunt of seven nieces and nephews, according to her obituary.<\/a>
Carroll Wiseman was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia and graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University as a pediatric nurse practitioner.
During her career, she worked at Children\u2019s Hospital of the King\u2019s Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia, and as a school nurse in Patuxent River, Maryland, and later in Friendswood, Texas, near her husband’s job at NASA, her obituary said.
Just before his mission to the moon began last week, Reid Wiseman shared a selfie<\/a> on Instagram with his now-teenage daughters and the spacecraft he’d be commanding for 10 days.
“I love these two ladies,” he wrote. “I’m boarding that rocket a very proud father.”
The crater that the Artemis II crew wants to name Carroll has not yet been officially named. It’s just a suggestion for now, NASA says.<\/a>
The crater name proposal will be formerly submitted to the International Astronomical Union after the mission is over, the agency says. The union governs the naming of celestial bodies and their surface features, NASA says.
Contributing: Brooke Edwards, Florida Today<\/em><\/p>\n

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At just 44 years old, Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman became a widower when he lost his wife Carroll to cancer.Now six years later and nearly 250,000 miles from Earth, the moon mission‘s crew shared an emotional moment when it came time to name a crater they spotted from the Orion capsule on Monday, April […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-206904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}