Wiseman’s Emotional Homecoming: Tears, Crosses, and a Crater Tribute
After a 10-day Artemis II mission, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman described being moved to tears during post-splashdown care when a chaplain walked in with a cross, and his crewmates had secretly named a lunar crater after his late wife Carroll; the journey yielded historic moments, including a solar eclipse viewed from behind the Moon, and the crew is now undergoing medical debriefs and readjusting to gravity on Earth.