NASA launched a mission named Artemis II that carried four astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen in the Orion capsules sitting atop the SLS. NASA’s SLS rocket, which is believed to be one of the most powerful rockets ever built, took off from Kennedy Space Centre, carrying the four astronauts for a 10-day lunar flyby. This is NASA’s first crewed mission in 53 years, which marks humans setting foot on the moon, after Apollo 17.
Artemis II is something like a test drive, which will keep in check all the systems and technologies for the later missions like Artemis III and Artemis IV, when humans will reach the moon once again. Reid Wiseman, the commander of Artemis II, along with three other astronauts, began their 25-hour checkout mission before the lunar singleshot and radioed, ‘the sun is rising on the integrity’, as he captured the view from space.
Reid Wiseman, commander of NASA’s Artemis, discussed a worst-case scenario with his kids before leaving for the mission
While this is a high-stakes mission and the astronauts’ families are proud, there’s always a worst-case scenario, and Reid Wiseman didn’t try to cover that from his teenage kids; rather, he talked to them about the same. Reid Wiseman was married to Carroll Taylor Wiseman, who was a nurse. It was back in 2020, when then 46-year-old Reid Wiseman lost his wife due to cancer.
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