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

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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.

The furthest that human beings have ever been from Earth

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