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

By Marie-Claire Beaulieu — September 23, 2022
(The Conversation) — A scholar of Greek mythology explains the naming of NASA’s missions after mythological figures and why the name Artemis is indicative of a more diverse era of space exploration.

Tiny Torah travels from hell on earth into outer space

By Lauren Markoe — June 27, 2012

(RNS) A new documentary follows a tiny Torah -- smuggled into a concentration camp and entrusted to a young boy, then taken to space by Israel's first astronaut -- from hell on earth to space. By Lauren Markoe.

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