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

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

The Conversation

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Diana by Augustus Saint Gaudens
Diana by Augustus Saint Gaudens, 1928, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York [Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA]
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 explor