Who is Artemis? NASA’s latest mission to the Moon is named after an ancient lunar goddess turned feminist icon – The Conversation

Who is Artemis? NASA’s latest mission to the Moon is named after an ancient lunar goddess turned feminist icon – The Conversation

(The article first appeared in The Conversation on August 30, 2022)

Artemis I will send a rocket without a crew on a monthlong journey around the Moon. The program aims to increase women’s participation in space exploration – 30% of its engineers are women. In addition, the Artemis I mission will carry two mannequins designed to study the effects of radiation on women’s bodies so that NASA can learn how to protect female astronauts better…

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