Even with a moon mission on the clock, Reid Wiseman had time for a dad photo.
The NASA astronaut posed with his two daughters, Ellie and Katherine, in front of the SLS rocket that is expected to be launched this evening. Wiseman is the commander of the Artemis II mission.
Wiseman lost his wife to cancer in 2020 and raised his teenage daughters while training for the mission.
In a post shared on Tuesday, he wrote: “Dad, we can’t leave the rocket without a .5 together!!” I love these two ladies, and I’m boarding that rocket a very proud father.”
A “.5” is a type of image taken with the ultra-wide-angle lens on a smartphone or camera, usually at 0.5x zoom. It captures a broader field of view than a standard photo.
NASA said on Monday: “The countdown for NASA’s Artemis II test flight is underway at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with members of the launch team arriving at their consoles inside the Rocco Petrone Launch Control Center.
Artemis II is the first crewed launch of NASA’s SLS, or Space Launch System, rocket and Orion spacecraft.
The test flight will take Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, along with Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency, around the Moon and back to Earth.
