Carroll Taylor Wiseman's Battle with Cancer

Carroll Taylor Wiseman passed away in 2020 at the age of 46, after a prolonged battle with cancer. Even while battling cancer, she was a strong supporter of her husband, NASA Artemis II Astronaut Reid Wiseman.

Born in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Carroll Taylor Wiseman was a Registered Nurse in a newborn intensive care unit and the wife of NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman. According to her husband's official NASA profile, Carroll "dedicated her life to helping others as a newborn intensive care unit Registered Nurse."

n 2020, Carroll passed away after a five-year-battle with cancer. It was not publicly revealed what cancer she was diagnosed with. When her condition took a turn for the worst, Reid Wiseman wanted to move them closer to her family.

"When she really started getting sick, I wanted to move us back towards where her family was from," He told CBS News. "And she's like, 'No, this is where you work. This is the job you love. This is where you work, and this is where our kids are growing up, and we are going to stay right here.' To me, that was marching orders ... to continue down this path."

During preparations for NASA’s Artemis II mission, astronauts were given the opportunity to name lunar features along their flight path. In an emotional gesture, Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen radioed to mission control with the crew’s request to “honor their mission by naming two craters on the moon”, dedicating one of them to Carroll.

“We lost a loved one, her name was Carroll, the spouse of Reid, the mother of Katey and Ellie,” Hansen said. He described the crater as "a bright spot on the moon."

"We would like to call it Carroll," Hansen said.

According to NASA, the crater name proposals will be formally submitted to the International Astronomical Union, the organization that governs the naming of celestial bodies and their surface features.