And the prime candidate is Nasa’s Artemis II mission, the first manned lunar flight since the last of the Apollo missions, Apollo 17, in 1972. Commander Reid Wiseman is, at 50, the oldest human to travel beyond low earth orbit. An Earthset captured by the Artemis II crew. Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman looks out of one of the Orion spacecraft’s main cabin windows at the moon ahead of the crew’s lunar flyby. The crew of Artemis II named a 'bright spot' on the moon after commander Reid Wiseman's late wife, Carroll Taylor Wiseman, who died of cancer in 2020.

Source: The Irish Times April 10, 2026 16:08 UTC