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

  • Written by Marie-Claire Beaulieu, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Tufts University
Who is Artemis? NASA's latest mission to the Moon is named after an ancient lunar goddess turned feminist iconDiana by Augustus Saint Gaudens, 1928, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Postdlf via 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 exploration – 30% of its engineers are women. In addition, the Artemis I...

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